Hard Things Quotes - Page 9

• My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible. It's a multicultural, multifaceted society in which we live. The country, I think, thrives because it's willing to embrace many ideas at the same time, but once a decision is made you will be unpopular with many people. The business of our political leaders is to go ahead and make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. That's a very hard thing to do.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  "Kelsey Grammer Gets Beastly About X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, America, Risk

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• When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

  Jackie French

  Giving Up, Missing, Hard

  "Jackie French, Author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

  Michael Cera

  Real, Comedy, Figures

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• You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Two, America

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Mean, Disease

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.

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• I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Cancer, Stupid

  "Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

  Larry Wall

  Fall, Easy, Should

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

  James Gunn

  Want Something, People, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

  James MacDonald

  Use, Signing Off, Happened

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.104, Moody Publishers

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• I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Hurt, Teaching, Healing

  Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Couple, Moving

  "Billy Bob Thornton Talks JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR, Getting Back in the Director’s Chair, BAD SANTA 2, FX’s FARGO Miniseries, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2013.

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• If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

  Christopher Walken

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

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• Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when you play live. Getting to see people's excitement and see them engage in the show makes me excited to get back out and play.

  Ben Rector

  Play, People, Excitement

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• I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Littles, Remember

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.228

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• Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.

  Megan Fox

  School, People, Film

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  Bonaventure

  Heart, Son, Men

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• For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

  Phoebe Cary

  Taken, Knowing, Deception

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.164

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• I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

  Janel Moloney

  Stars, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family... and you have parents meet someone and they have kids and you're with that whole having to meet new people and be your family. That's always a hard thing to do.

  Selena Gomez

  Kids, People, Parent

  Interview with Miranda Clarke, cinemanerdz.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.

  Larry Crabb

  Meaningful, Godly, People

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