Tough Quotes - Page 5

• I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

  Cub Swanson

  Smart, Mma, Champion

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• This is the eighth game in the series and when we work on a Mario Kart title, we work on courses and we create them and then we work on them again, and again, and again, and we revise until we come up with something that we think is going to be fun for everyone to play over and over again. So we have a lot of confidence in our ability to do so, but we understand what a tough challenge it is to create those courses.

  Hideki Konno

  Fun, Thinking, Mario Kart

  "Why Mario Kart 8 doesn't let players design tracks" by Chris Pereira & Jose Otero, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.

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• There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Opponents, Looks, Competitors

  "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.

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• My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

  Hiam Abbass

  Teenager, Issues, Identity

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• In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

  William Levy

  Giving, Cuba, Months

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• Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW: Ellen Malcolm: The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.

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• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

  David Plotz

  New York, Writing, Demand

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  Dana Hill

  Years, Planning, Medication

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Economic Sanctions, Serious

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• I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Transition, Aggressive

  "Immersed in Movies: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Lifts Kung Fu Panda 2" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2011.

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• I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Age, Periods, Deals

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• I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Dirty, Sleep

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Sometimes

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

  Sam Simon

  Crazy, Made

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• A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

  Twyla Tharp

  Leadership, Numbers, Goal

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Choices, Should

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• The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Rights, Ideas, Bills

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• We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.

  James Arness

  Jobs, Dad, School

  "'Gunsmoke' Star Arness Marshals His Memories". Interview with Susan King, articles.latimes.com. November 01, 2001.

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• Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Community, Progress, Needs

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• It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.

  Enson Inoue

  Mma, Stronger, Weakness

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• I enjoy every win that I have. Every win gives me satisfaction, because all the girls are competitive and the tour is so even and tough.

  Anna Kournikova

  Girl, Winning, Giving

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

  Bobby Vee

  Expression, Easy

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• Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  Daniel Hudson

  Giving Up, Attitude, Character

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