Tough Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Jesus, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

  Ashton Irwin

  Life Is, Hang In There, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2013

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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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• 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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• Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

  Ehud Olmert

  Leadership, Decision, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Boys, Champion, Machines

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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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• The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Memories, Party

  Barack Obama's remarks during Joint Press Conference with Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 17, 2015.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

  Gene Kranz

  Mean, Responsibility, Skills

  "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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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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