Tough Quotes - Page 13

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

  Bobby Vee

  Expression, Easy

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• Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  Daniel Hudson

  Giving Up, Attitude, Character

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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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• It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Movie, Airplane, Phones

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• You know, as a woman, it is tough to get to the top - like to get to that respected level in this industry - in any industry, I think.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Levels, Knows

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

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• Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Thinking, Guy, Hell

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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• It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Nice, Bad Ass, Self

  "FASTER THE CHRONICLES: Dwayne Johnson – Exclusive Interview that Covers FASTER, FAST FIVE, THE OTHER GUYS, 3D, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

  Barney Frank

  People, Littles, Boring

  "Exit Interview: Barney Frank Reflects on Successes, Regrets, Future Plans". "PBS NewsHour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. December 25, 2012.

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• I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

  Mika

  Taken, School, Mickey

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

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• My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

  Ryan Coogler

  School, Two, Clothes

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• It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Common Sense, Innovation

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Interesting, Progress

  'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) ch. 17

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• Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

  Bill Murray

  Self, Chicago, Actors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

  Zhou Enlai

  Years, Meat, Pieces

  To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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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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• It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

  Matt Dillon

  Men, Judging, Trying

  "The Development of an Actor". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 12, 1995.

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• President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Tough Times, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

  Leon Uris

  Used, Advantage, Ruthless

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

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• We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

  James Gunn

  Cynical, World, Being Cool

  Source: collider.com

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• "I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Guy, Unexpected, Conferences

  "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke, (p. 291), 1998.

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• The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Levels, May, Safe

  "Hit Where It Hurts" by Theodore Kaczynski, "Why The System Is Tough", point 4, 2002.

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• It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

  Eva LaRue

  Character, Thinking, Consistency

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• Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

  John McCain

  War, Fool, Fraud

  "Talk of War and Family Highlights McCain’s Kickoff Commercial" by Julie Bosman, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2008.

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• It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Happiness, Success, Horse

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• You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

  Jerry Glanville

  Football, Running, Balls

  "Glanville Looking for a Little More Action at Portland State". ESPN.com, August 09, 2007.

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