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• Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jobs, Good Luck, Decision

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Children, Husband, Kids

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

  Mike Svob

  Discovery, Long, Soul

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• Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self, Feel Good, Crux

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  Pamala Oslie

  Love, Technology, Perfect

  Pamala Oslie (2010). “Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras”, p.3, New World Library

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• A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

  John Allen Fraser

  Difficult Situations, Needs, Assets

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Distance, Car, Made

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

  Lydia M. Child

  Past, Errors, Perspective

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• Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

  Erin McKean

  Serendipity, Findings

  "Search Patterns : Design for Discovery". Book by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender (p. 131), 2010.

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• Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ideas, Atmosphere, Suggestions

  Patricia Wentworth (2016). “The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road”, p.361, Open Road Media

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• Women are called difficult and tough when (1) we negotiate the best deal, (2) we are perfectionists in doing our job, (3) we are willing to work harder and longer than men are willing to, and (4) when we question anything - anything - that someone else is doing, particularly if that someone is a man.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Jobs, Hard Work, Men

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

  Hal Elrod

  Opportunity, Challenges, Life Is

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• Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Pain, Waiting, Difficult Times

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• If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be

  Graham Cooke

  Giving, Empowering, Would Be

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• It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Joy, Luck

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• I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

  Jack Gleeson

  Nice, Trying, Sometimes

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

  Jack Gleeson

  Trying, Keep Trying

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• I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

  Megan Fox

  Fun, Comedy, Cry

  "'I don't want to be overly sexual now I'm a mum': Megan Fox talks motherhood and movies" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2012.

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• I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.

  W. Earl Brown

  Artist, People, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: W. Earl Brown Talks Bloodworth". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 18, 2011.

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• When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.

  Will Smith

  Running, Three, Miles

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• My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Disappointment, Moon, Journey

  "People Share Moon Landing Memories On YouTube Channel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 19, 2014.

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