Struggle Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Blessing, America, Choices

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• Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Class, America, Needs

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• The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

  Bill James

  Race, Long, Succeed

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• It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

  LeBron James

  Growing Up, Growing

  "The Incredible Drive Of LeBron James". "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. March 26, 2009.

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• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Order, World

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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  Laura Marling

  Be Good

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

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• When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teaching, Revolution, University

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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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• 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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• If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Political, Gone

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• Certain struggles never end.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Ends, Certain

  "Is There an O'Neal Family Curse?" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. February 7, 2007.

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

  Lindsey Vonn

  People, Perfect

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