Struggle Quotes - Page 14

• I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

  Henry Hopper

  Integrity, Creative, Compromise

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• I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

  Ethan Hawke

  Inspiration, Humor, People

  "Ethan Hawke on '20/20'". ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. March 5, 2004.

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• I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

  Francois Hollande

  Crazy, Order, Excess

  "How DSK's fall led to Hollande's rise" By Peter Wilkinson, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Class, America, Needs

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

  Bill James

  Race, Long, Succeed

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• It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

  LeBron James

  Growing Up, Growing

  "The Incredible Drive Of LeBron James". "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. March 26, 2009.

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• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Frustration, People, Frustrated

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• We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Medicine

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• As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Views, Law, Iron

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.254, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

  Rajneesh

  Inspiring, Letting Go, Mean

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• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Use, Lasts

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• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  R. Kelly

  Kids, Fire, Able

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

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• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

  Matthew Lewis

  Thinking, Years, People

  "The lessons of Neville Longbottom". Interview with Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  Laura Marling

  Be Good

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

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• Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islam, Colonialism, Looks

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• When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teaching, Revolution, University

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• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Closets, Unconscious, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Epic, Class

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Awards, Long, Achievement

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• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Ted Nelson

  Cat, Ideas, Trying

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• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  Karen O

  Artist, Vacation, Hardest

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

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• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Loss, People

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

  Patton Oswalt

  Religious, Atheist, Offending

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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