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• Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.

  Oliver $

  Hero, What Matters, Decision

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• And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm.

  Christina Grimmie

  Laughing, Dumb, Skins

  Source: joonbug.com

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• They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Kids, Past, Taught

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."

  Charlize Theron

  Block, Kids, Makeup

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• I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.

  Frances O'Grady

  Tough Times, Experts, Sides

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough.

  Andre Vltchek

  Years, Battle, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Brother, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

  Pat Summitt

  Strong, Quitting, Committed

  "Legendary Tennessee Basketball Coach Pat Summitt Dies At 64". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, wyso.org. June 28, 2016.

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• Look, being president of the United States is the toughest job in the world and I can tell you, as someone who has worked with Secretary Clinton and competed against her that she is a tough person who is ready to do this job.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, President, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

  Thomas Bidegain

  Thinking, Directors, Stories

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Dark, Mirrors, Editing

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!

  Yaya Toure

  Believe, Fighting, Hands

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Boards, Ships, Patriot

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• It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

  Michael Gove

  Pms, Choices, Scotsmen

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• There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.

  Andy Murray

  Doubt, Opponents, Roger

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Judging, Constitution

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.

  Mike DeWine

  People, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

  Victoria Wilson

  Children, Ambitious, Rubies

  Source: www.classicmoviehub.com

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• I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Loss, Rights, Empathy

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• The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

  DJ Khaled

  Trying, Messages, Life Experience

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Kings, Jobs, Talking

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• The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trying, Steps, Roles

  Source: bukowski.net

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• I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Thinking, People

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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