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• Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

  Donald Faison

  Way, My Own, Managers

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• I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.

  Jim Edgar

  Issues, Race, Government

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• John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

  Lester Bangs

  Grateful, Way, Cages

  "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 299), 1988.

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• One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

  Christina Aguilera

  Trust, Being Yourself, Night

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• One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Basketball, Football, Mean

  Interview with Wee Kiat, fabodylous.com. 2012.

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• Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
  I'm throwing the dice in the air.
  Why must we learn it the hard way
  And play the game of life with your heart?

  Yoko Ono

  Heart, Air, Ice

  "Song: 'Walking On Thin Ice'". 1981.

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• Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Humorous, Four, Way

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• ... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

  Loni Anderson

  Way, Saved, Hard

  Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company

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• The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Mind, Patterns

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Even when you're acting, you still need to be true to yourself because you don't want to put on a show for the rest of your life. It is a hard way to the top, but it is also very easy to come back down as well. Also, it is really important to keep yourself rested, and whenever you need a break, take a break.

  Miley Cyrus

  Important, Acting, Needs

  "Talking to Miley". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2008.

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• We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Art, Successful

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• There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

  Anita Roddick

  Money, Two, Way

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• There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.

  Dusty Redmon

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Might

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• I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Thinking, Self

  "Addicted to War: A Conversation with Chris Hedges". Interview with Metta Spencer, peacemagazine.org. April-June 2007.

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• Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Stars, Foam

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

  Umair Haque

  Fashion, Business, Real

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• I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Culture, Way

  Alan Hirsch (2009). “The Forgotten Ways”, p.111, Baker Books

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• Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

  Andrew Stanton

  People, Criticism, Way

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• A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

  Lil' Kim

  Father, Stuff, Way

  "Hardcore Honey: Bell Hooks Goes on the Down Low with Lil Kim". Interview With Bell Hooks, www.papermag.com. July 11, 2014.

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• The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Book, Men

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• I have come up the hard way.

  Johnny Olson

  Way, Come Up, Hard

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Book, Reading, Google

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• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  Danica McKellar

  Birthday, Brother, Age

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• I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Space, People

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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