Struggle Quotes - Page 13

• I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

  Brandy Norwood

  Together, Purpose, Needed

  "Brandy announces her return to music (with a little help from ray j) in new video" by Dave Harrison, www.mtv.com. August 18, 2008.

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• In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  Victoria Jackson

  Christian, Thinking, Would Be

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• I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Hero, Cuba, Citizens

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

  Nora Dunn

  Thinking, Messages, Ends

  Interview with Daniel Shar, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2011.

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• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Evil, Purpose

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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Meaningful, Believe, Reading

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• Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Behavior, Greatest Life

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• My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Wife, Comfortable

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• I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, Party, Decision

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• A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

  David Gallagher

  Winning, Guy, What If

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• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Kids, College

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• One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

  Douglas Booth

  Jobs, Holiday, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, Democracy, Faces

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• And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?

  David Brewster

  Depressing, Art, Science

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• One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality

  Antonio Gramsci

  Reality, Feelings, Intuition

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• We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

  Robert Hayden

  Evil, Political, Police

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Disease, Environment

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.2, Rutgers University Press

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• The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

  Marilyn French

  Life, Views, Matter

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Adventure, Independent, Men

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• Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, People, Sick

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• The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

  Jane Campion

  Writing, Piano, Stories

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Balance, Infrastructure, Internals

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• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  Edie Falco

  Dog, Children, Crazy

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• I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

  Neil Finn

  Order, Difficult Situations, Trying

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