Tough Quotes - Page 17

• When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Use, Selling, Force

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Fashion, Thinking

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• Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.

  James Franco

  Moving, Fighting, Looks

  "Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth, Izabela Vidovic and Director Gary Fleder Talk HOMEFRONT, Stunts, Action, Kittens and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 24, 2013.

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Ideas, Evil, Sake

  Source: screenrant.com

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• We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Together, Directors, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel.

  Drew Roy

  Night, Fans, Camping

  Source: collider.com

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• Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Love Is, Tough Love, Phrases

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.92, South End Press

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• All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots.
  Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.

  Luke Jensen

  Determination, Pain, Distance

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

  Jon Taffer

  People, Bars, Fixing

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2016

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• It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

  Koko Taylor

  Men, World

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• Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

  Richard Branson

  Tough Times, Spirit, Your Future

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• Tough times for Martha Stewart. Yesterday, Martha Stewart reported to her parole officer and had to take a mandatory urine test for cocaine and marijuana. Martha was found to be drug-free and her urine was found to be a lovely yellow saffron.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Yellow, Yesterday

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• Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

  Johnny Cash

  Life Is, Rough

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Half

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

  Katherine Paterson

  Supposed To Be

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #16”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Jesus, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

  Ashton Irwin

  Life Is, Hang In There, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2013

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• I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Believe, Winning

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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• The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.

  Jay Leno

  Approval Rating, Iran, Talking

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Games

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