Hard Times Quotes - Page 15

• I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

  Seth Rogen

  Struggle, Used, Comfortable

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

  Peter Drucker

  Elephants, Cockroaches, Adapting

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• O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
  Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Jewels, Lovers, Cold

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Motivational, Rough Times, Periods

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Stars, Men

  Andy Andrews (2002). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  Gavin Bryars

  Ensemble, Knows, Hard

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.

  Skip Bertman

  Hate, Kids, Needs

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• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Mom, Entrepreneur, Found

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• I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

  Catherine Opie

  Home, Giving, Photograph

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• I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

  Catherine Opie

  Home, School, Kids

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• I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

  Courteney Cox

  Time Keeping, Pregnant, Hard

  "Courteney Cox Has Baby Girl". www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2004.

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• I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Jesus, Play, Roles

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• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

  David Brainerd

  Spiritual, Space, Long

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

  Kristen Bell

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  ""Kristen Bell Charity Work, Events and Causes"". PETA's “World’s Sexiest Vegetarians” Award, www.looktothestars.org. 2006.

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Winning, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

  Roger Ebert

  Skills, Directors, Purpose

  Roger Ebert's review of "Wolf Creek", www.rogerebert.com. December 22, 2005.

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• I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

  Jesse McCartney

  Mom, Issues, Alarms

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

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• I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  Cesare Pavese

  Destiny, Captains, Ships

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• Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Cities, People

  Song: Hard Times in New York Town

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• No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

  Jessica Alba

  Speaking Spanish, Giving, Cameron

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• On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.

  Bill Maher

  Jealous, Player, Talking

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• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  Tony Blair

  Couple, War, Struggle

  BBC Question Time's election special programme, April 28, 2005.

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• What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

  Geneen Roth

  People, Mind, Want

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.

  Billy Joel

  Mistake, Reputation, Sometimes

  Song: You're Only Human

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