Rough Quotes - Page 40

• I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Sea, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

  Dick Cavett

  Ice, Guests, Edgy

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• When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

  Esperanza Spalding

  Portland, Bars, Neighborhood

  "Not My Job: Jazz Bassist Esperanza Spalding Gets Quizzed On Bases". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 26, 2016.

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boys, Flying, Gentleman

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Culture, Violence

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."

  Matt Bomer

  Beautiful, Baby, Ultrasounds

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Military, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.

  Kevin Bacon

  Fighting, Blood, Gigs

  "Kevin Bacon on ‘I Love Dick’, ‘Tremors’, and Becoming a TV Actor". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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• While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Growing Up, Reality, Childhood

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  Simon Sinek

  Selfish, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Goal, Trying, Coal

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

  Jane Fonda

  Leaving, Female, Radio

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Order, People

  Source: www.linux.com

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• The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

  Robert Southwell

  Errors, Heaven, Trying

  Saint Robert Southwell (1822). “Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort”, p.144

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