Challenges Quotes - Page 7

• I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sacrifice, Journey, Faces

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• But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Two, Trying

  "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

  James Dyson

  Children, Parent, Tasks

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• Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

  Amelia Earhart

  Ability, Can Do, Ifs

  "Have Fun with American Heroes: Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts". Book by David C. King, p. 82, 2005.

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• Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Tragedy, Needs, Stories

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Past, People

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• It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Segregation

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• The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Vaccines, Hiv, Scientist

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• Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

  James Fenton

  Lines, Firsts, Ends

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

  America Ferrera

  Children, Perspective, Important

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• I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Looks, Knows, Limitation

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• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  Ralph Fiennes

  World, Fantasy, Figures

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• Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

  Carrie Fisher

  Stories, Kevin

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• Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.

  Bobby Flay

  Sweet, Order, Warning

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• One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

  Joshua Foer

  Procrastination, Productive Work, Age

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Teenage, Parenting

  "Community-Based Doulas: A Good Investment in the Future" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Men, Age, Theodore

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• So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

  Michael J. Fox

  Husband, Patient, Bigs

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

  Michael J. Fox

  Long, Rooms, Enough

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• Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

  James Franco

  Art, Fun, Character

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

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• Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Practice, Enforcement

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

  Al Franken

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

  "Keeping Discrimination Out of Minnesota’s Constitution" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Believe, Ocean

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

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• Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Long, Support

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• A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Design, Creative, Economy

  "Women in Design: Diane von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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