Hard Quotes - Page 19

• You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

  Ellen Page

  Heart, Ideas, Trying

  Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know.

  Ellen Page

  Differences, People, Support

  Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

  Greta Garbo

  Hard Work, Wanted

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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• Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dream, Cost

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• Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

  Glenn Close

  Age, Roles, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Hard Times, Acting, Want

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

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• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

  Bette Davis

  Way, Gravestone, Knows

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• Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

  Goldie Hawn

  Crazy, Men, Lovely

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• An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough.

  Stephen Colbert

  Apples, Enough, Ifs

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• Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I didn't mention bears. It's winter, they're asleep, I didn't think it would be a problem. But today I see this in the Toronto Globe and Mail -- apparently a 700-pound polar bear showed up at a children's hockey game. I've said this before, they're after our kids -- they're tender, juicy, you don't even have to throw away the bones.

  Stephen Colbert

  Children, Kids, Hockey

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• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fighting, Honor

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Action, Hell, Endure

  "Happy 60th Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg! Our Favorite Quotes From The Actress" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2015.

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• It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is going through. The amount of tornadoesit's like three times the highest amount ever before, right? Something weird is happening with all of these natural catastrophes.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Three, Global Warming, Reason

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Why Not

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’ 

  Leighton Meester

  Giving Up, Crazy, Sweaters

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• Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Mom, People, Appreciate

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• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

  Strong, Jewish Tradition, Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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• I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

  Fred Melamed

  Ignorant, Adherence, Judaism

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• Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Dying, Comedy, Easy

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• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  Christoph Waltz

  Father, Challenges, Actors

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

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• My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

  James Marsters

  Philosophy, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Morning, Fun, Moving

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• I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Fall, Get Up

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