Tough Quotes - Page 19

• Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Running, Men, Ice

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Half

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, Trying, President

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel.

  Drew Roy

  Night, Fans, Camping

  Source: collider.com

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

  Jon Taffer

  People, Bars, Fixing

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2016

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• Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

  Richard Branson

  Tough Times, Spirit, Your Future

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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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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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• The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

  Luke Donald

  Success, Past, Thinking

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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• The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.

  Jay Leno

  Approval Rating, Iran, Talking

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• It's good to see a kid that
  young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

  Jorge Posada

  Kids, Young

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Organization, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

  Charlie Munger

  Focus, Special, Investing

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• Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Worst, Difficult

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• You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Female, Congress, Members

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

  Gary Busey

  Boys, Want, Planets

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  When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Get Up

  Remarks by the President on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 15, 2014.

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• We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Children, Teenage, Responsibility

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.

  Sam Kinison

  Able, Faces, Wells

  "Have You Seen Me Lately?". "Parties With the Dead", 1988.

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