Tough Quotes - Page 19

• The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.

  Steve Goodier

  Views, Focus, Tough Times

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• In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Robert Benchley (1954). “The Benchley Roundup”

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• Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Children, Beats

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2184, Delphi Classics

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• It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Life, Emotional, Decision

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• I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

  Willie Green

  Thinking, Hands, Defense

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• A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

  Carl Sandburg

  Desire, Doe, Rich

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

  Rebecca Mader

  Character, Mean, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Working Together, Body Work

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• I started to take care of my body after I turned 50. I never liked how I looked physically because I was too cute, short, with coloring only on my cheeks, the perfect little nose, and then the blue eyes. But I would have preferred to have the look of a tough guy from the wrong side of town - one of those fascinatingly ugly looks.

  Giorgio Armani

  Cute, Eye, Blue

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.

  Sally Ride

  People, Risk, Able

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Thinking, Differences, Littles

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• I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.

  Jeff Kendrick

  Math, Mind, Musician

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• It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Ideas, Motorcycle

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". Interview with Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Cutting, Pro Life

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Just making sure that they both felt equally loved is what was tough about the twins.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Twins, Felt

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• A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

  Richard Ayoade

  Directors, Doe, Gauges

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• My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

  Rob Paulsen

  Goal, Tough Times, Producers

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• I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

  Hank Williams III

  Able, Achieve, Wanted

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• Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

  Hank Williams III

  Work Ethic, Balance, Ethics

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• I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

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• Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

  Queen Latifah

  Feel Better, Giving, Tough Times

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• Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.

  Woody Allen

  Country, New York, Logical Ideas

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• Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Morning, Doctors

  "Woody Allen Interview to Rome with Love". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Nice, Thinking

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