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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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• I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Distance, Sick, Unhappy

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Regret, Self, Sharks

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• If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Sight, Hands, Mind

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• ...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

  Tom McClintock

  Political, Decision, Pressure

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• A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

  Solomon

  Answers, Rage, Break

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• I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.

  Thom Yorke

  Mirrors, May, Sides

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• I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.

  Tom Peters

  Target, Urges

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• Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.

  Freedy Johnston

  Jobs, Thinking, Careers

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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• You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Simple, Reality

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

  Liev Schreiber

  Girl, Tough Girl

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. January 30, 2007.

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• It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Film, Made, Hard

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, War, Men

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

  John Noble

  Years, Guy, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.

  Julian Jarrold

  Interesting, Trying, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Real, Artist, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it's tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Thinking, Play, Feelings

  "Kristin Kreuk Talks The CW’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Receiving a Note from Linda Hamilton, SMALLVILLE and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Strong, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Boys, Games

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Dark, Tough Times

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Suicide, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: collider.com

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• It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but I think everyone gets their moment in time. That other couple definitely has their moment too, and they have to make some tough decisions.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Couple, Thinking, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.

  Patty Schemel

  Sleep, Routine, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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