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• I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pregnancy, Fall, Decision

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

  Indira Gandhi

  Decision, Doe, Vietnam

  Source: sangam.org

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• There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain involved and so you're putting yourself through adversity in that situation. It's never totally pleasurable and there are moments where it's kind of boring or painful and you know that in doing that, you're making your mind and body tougher and more resilient. So must be able to deal with the boredom that happens in life.

  Robert Greene

  Pain, Adversity, Exercise

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Regret, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Communication, People, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It's a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Doctors, Interesting

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• As painful and destructive as they are, the hateful comments allow us to map the underlying beliefs of many people in a way we've never been able to before. It's almost as if all of the negativity and misogyny needs to come to the surface so we can fully understand what it is, and how deep it goes, before we can begin to shift it. Of course, I wish it weren't there.

  Monica Lewinsky

  People, Negativity, Wish

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Samsara, Said

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• This is painful and it will be for a long time.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Long Time

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Scary

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

  Jane Alison

  Sides, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.

  Emma Stone

  Memories, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• 1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Years, Painful Experiences

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• [Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.

  Gene Wilder

  Baby, London, Odyssey

  Source: keranews.org

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• One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

  Howard Rheingold

  People, Would Be, Revolution

  Source: medium.com

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• I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

  George Michael

  Thinking, Anything Worth Having, Seems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Drinking, Ideas, Leader

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

  Susan Rice

  Political, Lightning, Notion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

  Regina Spektor

  Parent, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

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• History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Records, Endless

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

  Jeff Sessions

  Real, Support, Effort

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

  Ed Helms

  Hangover, Bumps, Bruises

  Source: movies.about.com

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