Harder Quotes - Page 19

• I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.

  Bill McKibben

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I do believe the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Richard Branson

  Believe

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• I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

  Denzel Washington

  Hard Work, Trying, Actors

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

  Elle King

  Hard Work, People, Work Harder

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

  Carrie Fisher

  Men, Thinking, Variety

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hard Work, Messing Up, Work Harder

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

  Bryan Fuller

  Writing, Thinking, Design

  Source: horrornews.net

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• I'm probably harder on myself than I need to be, but it's important to me if I'm going to ask an audience for an hour of their time that I don't waste their time. I want to give them something significant to chew on.

  Bryan Fuller

  Giving, Important, Needs

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

  Kevin Durant

  Shoes, Two, Trying

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

  Jesse Jackson

  Senior, Rights, Wings

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

  Roxane Gay

  Men, Years, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.

  Susan Rice

  Acceptance, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

  Joan Chen

  Interesting, Age, Female

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mistake, Kids, Community

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Important, Special

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

  Barack Obama

  May, Hard

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

  Susan Sontag

  Europe, America, Body

  Source: ctheory.net

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• That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, World, Becoming

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Black, Trying, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

  Willie Parker

  Ocean, Thinking, Government

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers. We still face many administrative hurdles in every aspect of our lives. If anything, things are actually getting harder for us, because now there are people who are using our visibility as an excuse to say that we are already receiving fair and honest treatment, when the reality is that we are still in bad shape as a community.

  Chelsea Manning

  Reality, Bystanders, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

  Chris Hadfield

  Holiday, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Teacher, Special, Special Education

  "Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So Hard". "All Things Considered" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kuer.org. January 15, 2017.

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