Tough Quotes - Page 35

• As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

  Jenny Lewis

  Cute, Dark, Trying

  Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy. 
  (on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Football, Giving Up, Cancer

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• Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Cowboy, Suits You

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• If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

  Carlos Mencia

  School, Names, Goal

  TV Series "Mind of Mencia", www.imdb.com. (2005– ).

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• When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

  Rebecca Mader

  Jobs, Character, Knowing

  "Show Tracker". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, articles.latimes.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam.

  Judith Hill

  Magic, Adam, Blake

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• My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.

  Roy Cohn

  Scare, Arena, Assets

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• Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Games, Quality

  "Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Husband, Home, Challenges

  "Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker – Love Never Looked This Good". Interview with DeWayne Rogers, rollingout.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.

  Ramsey Clark

  Jesus, Mean, Two

  "Never-Ending Search in Iraq" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2003.

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• Mental rehab is way tougher than the physical part... [You think] I'm tired of doing the same thing [exercising] all day. It's tough, but you've got to overcome it.

  Will Poole

  Tired, Exercise, Thinking

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• You know, I used to say that it's really tough to get out of the top 100, you know? So I proved to everybody that it's not so tough, it's pretty easy.

  Ernests Gulbis

  Top 100, Easy, Used

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• I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

  Lewis Hamilton

  People, Cinema, Bathroom

  "Can you still be the boy next door and live in a Swiss tax haven?" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.

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• Wake up, life does get tough. No need to stress, holds you back too much.

  Kid Cudi

  Stress, Doe, Needs

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• I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

  Mr. T

  Guy, Predator, Should

  "Mr T: 20 years on after The A-Team". www.mirror.co.uk. February 1, 2009.

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• Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.

  Phil Anselmo

  Wise, Nice, Boys

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• I just do what I do and hope it's accepted by the public at large. It's different from when Marvin Gaye and Stevie revolutionized what music was 25 years ago. Now there's all this technology that's available to everyone. It's tough to be ahead of anyone.

  Brian McKnight

  Technology, Years, Different

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• It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.

  Barry Privett

  College, People, Challenges

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• It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself.

  MC Serch

  Cities, Support, Promise

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• Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.

  Sabrina Bryan

  Soccer, Song, Writing

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• It's sad. There's a lot about this industry that a lot of people don't know about and don't find out about. There are a lot of tough things and trials and stuff that you're faced with. Sometimes, God has other plans for people. Sometimes bands can't stick through it. It depends on the situation. Keep praying for the bands that you like, seriously, because a lot of things will try to get in the way of being together. We've been blessed with not deal with those yet, but if we ever did...?

  Trevor McNevan

  Blessed, People, Trying

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• I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.

  Ronan Keating

  Crazy, Artist, Reflection

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• I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Love Is, Challenges, Love Relationship

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• No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, World, Way

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• I think about never letting anybody get the ball in my zone, about being tough. If the ball is taken away from me, I'm the first one to take it back. You can rise to higher levels depending on your level of pride.

  Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

  Taken, Pride, Thinking

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