Hard Quotes - Page 34

• Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

  Chris Noth

  Inspirational, Basketball, Yoga

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• Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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• At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

  H. H. Asquith

  Birthday, Getting Older, Age

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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Age, Hollywood

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Law, Challenges

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• I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  Jackie Robinson

  Respect, Mistake, Loneliness

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Giving Up, Block

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Real, Nice, Fall

  Dinaw Mengestu (2007). “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears”, p.61, Penguin

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• And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Would Be, States, Ifs

  "Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works".

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• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  William Albert Allard

  Believe, Knowing, Special

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• It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

  David Antin

  Character, Mouths, Novel

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• I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

  David Antin

  Writing, Remember, Imagine

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• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

  Edward Abbey

  World, Bigger, Folks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

  Edward Abbey

  Sick, Alcohol, Mama

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Objectivity, Moral

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• There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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• As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Believe, Cameras, Shy

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Islands, People, Heaven

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Couple, Moving

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• Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys. However, I want to do what is good for the people of Montreal and the team. So that no further harm will be done, I would like to ask everyone to get behind the team and to help the boys win from the Rangers and Detroit. I will take my punishment and come back next year to help the club and younger players to win the cup.

  Maurice Richard

  Hurt, Team, Winning

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• Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Differences, Slippers

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

  Damien Rice

  Grows, Knows

  Song: Cannonball, Album: O, 2003

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• People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, People, Convincing

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