Hardest Quotes - Page 30

• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  Donald Knuth

  Sleep, Night, Machines

  "Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming". Innovations Interview, www.informit.com. 1996.

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• The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Children, Taken, Long

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• Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Endeavor, Humankind

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, People, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

  Dave Lombardo

  Genius, Mike

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• Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

  Norm MacDonald

  Writing, Miles, Millions

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

  Bruno Mars

  How You Feel, Down And, Things To Do

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Identity, Campaigns

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• Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

  Sienna Miller

  Film, Workers

  "I always end up putting my big fat foot in it" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2007.

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• I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Teenager, Thinking, Gossip

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• I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Inspiring, Girl

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Art, Boxing

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

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Beauty, Book

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• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Hands, Modesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  I Love You, True Love, Inspirational Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.124, Penguin

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• Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Vanity, Wounded

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• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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• The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

  Al Pacino

  Crazy, Nice, People

  Esquire, January 2003.

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• Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

  William Penn

  Love Is, Lessons, Care

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  Matthew Perry

  Order, Addiction, Trying

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• Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hands, Parent, Tolls

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• It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Views, Expectations, Weight

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

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