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• Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

  Julie James

  Mom, Dirty, Home

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• Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Selfish, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.185, Macmillan

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• When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. Stand strong and fight the good fight of faith. God has called each of us to be champions; you are destined to win. If you will work with God and keep a good attitude, then no matter what comes against you, the bible says that all things – not just the good things in life, but all things – work together for your good.

  Joel Osteen

  Strong, Attitude, Fighting

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• The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Way, Timing

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• Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ransom, Well Said, Delusion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Trying, Missionary

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• I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

  Dree Hemingway

  Teenager, Men, Sea

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  Natalie Maines

  Country, Fate, Fans

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• My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Years, Parent, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

  Andy Murray

  "'I'm not happy with being No. 4 in the world'". Interview with Ravi Ubha, www.espn.co.uk. March 16, 2010.

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• The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

  Ben Marcus

  Thinking, Hands, Worry

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Steel, Arms

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Long, Records

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  R. S. Thomas

  Kings, Passion, Heart

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

  Robert Dilts

  Being Different, Age, Size

  Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, Robert W. Dilts (1991). “Tools for dreamers: strategies for creativity and the structure of innovation”, Meta Pubns

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• God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

  Robert Wright

  Hatred, Greed, Human Nature

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage

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• I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Tattoo, Two, Feels

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I was incredibly stubborn. I mean, I believe that my father was frequently in the right, but I would never admit it, and so we did have a few set-tos on various topics; but on the whole as I got older and my father got more mature we got along reasonably well.

  Edmund Hillary

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• [Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.

  Gretl Braun

  Wall, Ideas, Clothes

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• There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

  George F. Kennan

  World, Opinion, Courageous

  "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

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• We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

  Julie Larson-Green

  Headings, Principled

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• Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Perseverance, Defeat, Tenacity

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• They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Wife, Paid Off

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

  Natasha Henstridge

  Letting Go, Thinking, Today

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• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

  Vincent McNabb

  Hope, Spiritual, Giving

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