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• The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

  Robin Ince

  Thinking, Information, Worst

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Oil, Would Be

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

  Morgan Freeman

  Giving, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.

  Christophe Beck

  Team, Careers, Process

  Source: collider.com

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• We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.

  Chris Patten

  America, World, Easy

  "Interviews with Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright". "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the life of one of my clients and I burst into tears at a small, crowded café... I’m not a crier at all in my own life. Maybe that’s why I’m a ghostwriter.

  Hilary Liftin

  Taken, Writing, Emotional

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

  Claudia Llosa

  Men, Empathy, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Skills, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

  Drake

  Eye, Thinking, Trying

  "Drake's star rises with his NBA friends". Interview, www.espn.com. August 18, 2010.

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• It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

  Cornel West

  Quality, Kind, Intensity

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

  Cornel West

  Play, Roots, Bears

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.

  Richard Branson

  Focus, Decision, Faces

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Sadness

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Would Be

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• Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mistake, Arrogance, Sometimes

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• I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Running, Men, Talking

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• Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

  Anthony Burgess

  World, Violence, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

  Jim Lee

  Real, Artist, Looks

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• As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Son, Degradation

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.

  Kwon Yuri

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

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• If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Thinking, Vocabulary

  "Lydia Davis hints at move to microblogging fiction" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Students, Classroom

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• In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.

  Beau Biden

  Philosophy, Mean, College

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• The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mastery, Levels, May

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