Rough Quotes - Page 4

• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Flavour, Bites

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

  Eminem

  Detroit, Smooth, Talkers

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• It's the rough diamond that dictates what you can get out of a diamond. You can't say, "I'm going to make this," or, "I'm going to make that." It's nature. Whatever nature gives us, we explore and we build on. We can't create something that is not in the stone, so we take away as many imperfections as we can. Sometimes, you can't take them all away. But mostly, our cut, our polish, the life we put into the stones, the beauty that we bring out is exceptional.

  Laurence Graff

  Cutting, Giving, Imperfection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Rocks, California

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• So many people have disappointed me. And there's also been so many people - not so many, but a few people who make everything worth it, stick through it, and they show loyalty. And no matter what goes down, seas or rough or calm Sunday afternoon, those are people that are worth it. You die for those people.

  Camila Cabello

  Loyalty, Sunday, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

  J. Bracken Lee

  Golf, Hazards, Use

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cities, Sound, Chicago

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Truth, Honesty, Iconoclasm

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pay your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

  Sam Kinison

  Morning, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mother, Stars, Mean

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Taken, Two

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• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hard Work, Backgrounds, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

  Mia Hamm

  Play, Ifs

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• We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

  Roger Daltrey

  Groups, Pops, Edges

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• I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

  Billy Connolly

  Islands, Drawing, Desert

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I was working in the same building as U.S. News & World Report, and I banged on the door and said, "I'm ready to go." And they said, "What's your combat experience?" I said, "Does my parents' divorce count? It was pretty rough." Then they said, "What's your reporting experience?" And I said, "I covered the women's volleyball team in college exceptionally well." The guy was like, "You are so not ready to be a war correspondent."

  Samantha Power

  Volleyball, War, Team

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• The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into fiction for someone else. In some ways fiction comes a lot closer to reality. When you start talking about something as brutal as slavery and life in the American West, it's really important to take a non- judgmental stance. We romanticize a great deal about life in the American West, but I thank God I wasn't living during that time. No matter what color you were, it was rough, crude, tough living.

  James McBride

  Reality, Important, Thank God

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

  Kevin Bacon

  Not Good Enough, Criticism, Important

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• I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

  David Bailey

  Firsts, Serious, Ten

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• Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

  Justin Bieber

  Friendship, Rough Day, Turns

  "Justin Bieber Answers YOUR Questions!". www.seventeen.com. September 13, 2010.

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• When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?

  Lily King

  Mistake, Cutting, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Differences, Rough Patches

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• I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

  Jo Brand

  Distance, School, Swimming

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

  Rupert Brooke

  Sleep, Kissing, Bed

  New Numbers no. 3 (1914) "The Great Lover"

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