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• Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Sleep, Sunshine, Long

  Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• It's about ethical. It's about leading from the front, and it's kind of hard to look at people and say hey, listen, we need to cut back or it may cost you more money - if you're not willing to do the same thing.

  Rich Nugent

  Cutting, People, May

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• You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

  Randall Munroe

  Trying, Process

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• That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fun, Struggle, Love Is

  "Against the grain". Interview with Dana Droppo, www.complex.com. August/September 2014.

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• If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Gdp, Population

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• I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  Angela Merkel

  Sorry, Athlete, Effort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

  Carl Jung

  Strong, Mean, Son

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Reason Why, Failing

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hard Work, Depth, May

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

  Roger Federer

  Clever, Hard Work, Years

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• I hope so. God, I've practiced so much that I you don't want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game today. I know how hard it is to pull off those great shots, and I know how easy it is to miss, so I'm more aware of these things. But I'm so happy I'm at the age I am right now because I had such a great run and I know there's still more possible.

  Roger Federer

  Running, Years, Games

  "Roger Federer - Men's Singles final". www.wimbledon.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

  Rafael Nadal

  Hard Work, Winning, Player

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• That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Hard Work, Play, Tennis

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• I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Winning, Years, Lasts

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• Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

  Jim Courier

  Years, Forgiving, Lucky

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• [In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

  Jimmy Connors

  Games, Clay, Roger

  "Connors on the men's final" by Jimmy Connors, news.bbc.co.uk. July 9, 2006.

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• People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

  Monica Seles

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lonely, Art, Past

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

  E. L. James

  Family, Growing Up, Perfect

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• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

  Marianne Moore

  Editing, Editors, Unfair

  Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

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• What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, Thinking, Giving

  "Astaire, the biography". Book by Tim Satchell, 1987.

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