Tough Quotes - Page 12

• If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

  Joe Nichols

  Artist, Albums, Littles

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• I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

  Brad Gilbert

  Player, Switzerland, Would Be

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

  Hiam Abbass

  Teenager, Issues, Identity

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• Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

  Lucille Bliss

  Careers, Voice, Actresses

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• A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

  Twyla Tharp

  Leadership, Numbers, Goal

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

  William Levy

  Giving, Cuba, Months

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• Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW: Ellen Malcolm: The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.

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• People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.

  Jess Weixler

  Thinking, People, Important

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• My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

  Scott McCallum

  Jobs, Best Job, Goal

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• I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Issues, Space

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• I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Age, Periods, Deals

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• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

  David Plotz

  New York, Writing, Demand

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Sometimes

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

  Sam Simon

  Crazy, Made

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

  Charles Kennedy

  Jobs, People, Decision

  "Kennedy defends his style" by Oliver King, Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

  Skylar Grey

  World, Honestly, Ifs

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

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• Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Community, Progress, Needs

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• Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Choices, Should

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• Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Book by Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.

  Enson Inoue

  Mma, Stronger, Weakness

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• I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

  Cub Swanson

  Smart, Mma, Champion

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• Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

  Bobby Vee

  Expression, Easy

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• I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Work Out, Guy

  Source: movieweb.com

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