Tough Quotes - Page 18

• Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Iran, Outcomes, Threatening

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• Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

  Conan O'Brien

  Math, President, Opponents

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• On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the
  lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

  Malcolm Forbes

  New York, Lobster, Size

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Block, Player

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• No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Strong, Night

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• I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go.

  Manu Ginobili

  Nba Championships, Years, Nba Finals

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• Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Believe, Our World, People

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• New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Anxiety, Community

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• Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

  John Urschel

  Football, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Deep Love, Possibility

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

  Max Lucado

  Tough Times, Essentials, Staying

  Source: thebrinkonline.com

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• ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

  Tom Ford

  Voice, Appreciate, Tough Times

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

  Walter Hill

  Revenge, Drama, Ice

  Source: collider.com

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• I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Strong, Hurt

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 15, 2008.

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• The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

  Michael Patrick King

  Pilots, Months, Six

  "Showrunners 2012: '2 Broke Girls'' Michael Patrick King". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

  Virginia Woolf

  Butterfly, Shade, Lasts

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

  Stephen Lang

  Lonely, Thinking, Roots

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• It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.

  Bell Hooks

  Growing Up, Home, Night

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• Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.

  Frank Pittman

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.

  Roger Goodell

  Opportunity, Player, Reality

  "Read Roger Goodell's Letter To NFL Fans" by Dashiell Bennett, www.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Tough times for Martha Stewart. Yesterday, Martha Stewart reported to her parole officer and had to take a mandatory urine test for cocaine and marijuana. Martha was found to be drug-free and her urine was found to be a lovely yellow saffron.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Yellow, Yesterday

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• For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

  Whitey Herzog

  Smart, Book, Sometimes

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• I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Fashion, Thinking

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