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• My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two syllable words are in that song. Very, very few. ... Verses and the choruses have very few two syllable words. 'I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my everything.' One three-syllable word.

  Don Helms

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

  Ann Brashares

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

  Ann Reed

  Song, Writing, Feelings

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• I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.

  David Massengill

  Believe, Hard Work, Writing

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• Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

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• The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

  Jean Paul

  Kindness, Heart, Perfection

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• The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

  Ruth Reichl

  Simple, Oil, Perfection

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• Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

  Joseph Haydn

  Music, People, Effort

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• You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel’s alone.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, America

  Barack Obama's speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists... Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed - not 'deconstructed' but destroyed.

  Noel Ignatiev

  Believe, Race, White

  "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.

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• Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

  Ovid

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hate, Blood, Punishment

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

  Eydie Gorme

  Anniversary, Years, Unbelievable

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• I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

  Deidre Hall

  Jobs, Home, School

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• Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

  Michelle Kwan

  Fun, School, Kids

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

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• It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.

  Scott Woods

  Hard Work, Class, Racism

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• Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.

  Ian Maclaren

  Motivational, Fighting, Battle

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• [M]y mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. And while she may be proud of me tonight, I've got to tell you, Mom, I'm even more proud of you. Thank you, Mom.

  Julian Castro

  Mom, Mother, Rights

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• I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

  Gordon Cooper

  Government, Feelings, Sitting

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• It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

  Helen Rowland

  Home, Successful, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Walking Away, Wife

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• I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Hard Work, Luck

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• If you've ever been hungry then you'll never be full and I know what it's like to be hungry. When I was 13, I realized I could control my destiny through hard work. I had my hands and I was going to work my ass off, I was going to initiate and create some sort of change in my life.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Hard Work, Destiny, Hands

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• Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

  Frank Ocean

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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