Tough Quotes - Page 20

• We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

  Hugh Jackman

  Stronger, And Love, Different

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

  Hugh Jackman

  Together, Want, Watches

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mom, Children, Home

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• I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.

  Andy Murray

  Fun, Nice, Scotland

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Girl, Strong, Men

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

  Marc Maron

  Suicide, Spiritual, Work Out

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

  Columbus Short

  Real, Foundation, Hollywood

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• Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

  Mel Gibson

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

  Gene Kranz

  Mean, Responsibility, Skills

  "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

  Gene Kranz

  Writing, White, Safety

  "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

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• Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Growing Up, Museums

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

  Eric Thomas

  Needs, Apathy, Sometimes

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• Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

  Kevin Drum

  Apples, Long, Benefits

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Wanted, Emulate

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Odds, Hands, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Long, Grew Up

  Source: whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com

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• Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.

  Doc Brown

  People, Guy, Rooms

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• You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.

  Joan Jett

  Mean, Emotional, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Past

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

  Joan Jett

  Hurt, Book, Fighting

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• I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Reading, Documentaries

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• ​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

  John Legend

  Thinking, People, Want

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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