Hardest Quotes - Page 31

• I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Found

  "'The 39 Clues' round-robin interview: All seven authors answer questions about the interactive adventure series". Interview with Keith Staskiewicz, ew.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

  Nile Rodgers

  Thinking, Judging Yourself, Overcoming

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• As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To 'Faux War' Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Real, Light

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• Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

  Patti Stanger

  Valentines Day, Night, Years

  “Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Fool-Proof Plan for Picking Up a Guy on Valentine's Day” by Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

  Gwen Stefani

  Balance, Done, Findings

  ""September Cover Girl: Gwen Stefani" by Derek Blasberg". www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  Oliver Stone

  Tough Economic Times, People, Interesting

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• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Believe, Hero, Adversity

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• I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sympathy, Loss, Blow

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• Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Giving Up, Passion

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• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Two, Brain

  "The Masters 2011 - the final day, as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, Games, Play

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.

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• Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Night, World, Opera

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• To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

  Johnny Weir

  Elements, Skating, Looks

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• I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

  Joss Whedon

  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

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• The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

  Ron White

  Team, America, Turns

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• Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

  Henry Winkler

  Fun, Acting, Three

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• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Rob Zombie

  People, Zombie, Want

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• What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

  John Irving

  Love, Wind, People

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

  William James

  Success, Peace, Honesty

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, War, Iraq

  Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 6, 2006.

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• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Inspirational Life

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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