Tough Quotes - Page 37

• For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.

  Patty Schemel

  Sleep, Routine, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

  Matt Blaze

  Simple, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.

  John Wayne

  Stupid

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  Tough Questions, People, Criticism

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Teenager, School, Yearbook

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• Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Team, Russia, Together

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• When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

  Rebecca Mader

  Jobs, Character, Knowing

  "Show Tracker". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, articles.latimes.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Long, Backgrounds, Bothered

  "Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth on Afghanistan and the spirit of our armed forces". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2009.

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. And things might not always work out like you think they should. But they always work out. I'm thankful that the world's in perfect harmony at all times. Pilgrims had it tough. But now, we live in the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. And the Indians, well, you know.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Holiday, Thinking

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

  Henry Rollins

  Russia, Land, People

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• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  Barkhad Abdi

  Dream, Dad, Hard Work

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

  David Letterman

  Children, Catholic, Church

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• A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

  Demetri Martin

  Names, Guy, Would Be

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2012

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• Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Guy, Getting Older, Sitting

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.60, Zondervan

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• I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Two, Wife

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.55, Zondervan

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• The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

  Emo Philips

  People, Scots, Glasgow

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

  Don Rickles

  Kids, Names, Lasts

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

  Chelsea Handler

  Cutting, Tough Economic Times, Three

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• My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

  George Lopez

  Smart, Stress, Grandmother

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Decision, World

  Source: collider.com

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• It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

  Steven Yeun

  Tv Shows, Being Thankful, Gigs

  Source: collider.com

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• The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Fighting, Past, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"

  Remi Aubuchon

  Couple, Writing, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

  Derek Taylor

  Docks, Danger, Said

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