Tough Quotes - Page 20

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

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Fashion, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

  Hugh Jackman

  Stronger, And Love, Different

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

  Hugh Jackman

  Together, Want, Watches

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mom, Children, Home

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• I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Girl, Strong, Men

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

  Marc Maron

  Suicide, Spiritual, Work Out

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

  Columbus Short

  Real, Foundation, Hollywood

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• Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

  Kevin Drum

  Apples, Long, Benefits

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Long, Grew Up

  Source: whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com

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