Struggle Quotes - Page 17

• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Ted Nelson

  Cat, Ideas, Trying

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• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Awards, Long, Achievement

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• Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islam, Colonialism, Looks

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• The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

  John Poindexter

  Dollars, Would Be, Needs

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• Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.

  Denis Fahey

  Long, Perspective, Age

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• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Closets, Unconscious, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Loss, People

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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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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• The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Tired, Home

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• Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Children, Fighting

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

  Dennis Lehane

  Father, Class, World

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• I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Battle, Trying, Found

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

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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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• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Easy

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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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• I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Player, Thinking, Looks

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• I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

  Ving Rhames

  Blessed, Actors, Feels

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

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• To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Kids, Score

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Blow, Order

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  Katey Sagal

  Believe, Character, Media

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• I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

  Sheryl Lee

  Dark, Two, Vampire

  Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998.

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• What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

  Murray Bookchin

  Reality, Men, Imagine

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.115, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Brother, Forever, Pages

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

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• ... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

  Paulo Freire

  Learning, Exercise, Knowing

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

  Lindsey Vonn

  People, Perfect

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