Tough Quotes - Page 6

• Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

  Amy Lee

  Thinking, Perfect, Admitting

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• It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Movie, Airplane, Phones

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• You know, as a woman, it is tough to get to the top - like to get to that respected level in this industry - in any industry, I think.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Levels, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.

  Tiger Woods

  Swings, Play, Ideas

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• Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Thinking, Guy, Hell

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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• Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

  Bill Murray

  Self, Chicago, Actors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.

  Geoff Johns

  Want, Honest, About Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

  Channing Tatum

  Fighting, Guy, Fighter

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Nice, Bad Ass, Self

  "FASTER THE CHRONICLES: Dwayne Johnson – Exclusive Interview that Covers FASTER, FAST FIVE, THE OTHER GUYS, 3D, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

  Barney Frank

  People, Littles, Boring

  "Exit Interview: Barney Frank Reflects on Successes, Regrets, Future Plans". "PBS NewsHour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. December 25, 2012.

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• There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

  Ann Romney

  Next Day, People, Example

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• I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

  Mika

  Taken, School, Mickey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

  Ryan Coogler

  School, Two, Clothes

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• American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

  George Santayana

  Powerful, America, Optimism

  George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

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• If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Smart, Winning

  "Obama Speaks at Veterans of Foreign Wars' Convention; Tropical Storm Fay Moves Up Florida Peninsula; U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Face Suicide Bombers; Presidential Candidates Close to Naming Running Mates; Payoff in Gold for a Promising Athlete". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2008.

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• It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Common Sense, Innovation

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Book by Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

  Mariah Carey

  Sleep, People, Different

  Interview with Ingrid Sischyc, mariahcareynetwork.com. September 2007.

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• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

  Zhou Enlai

  Years, Meat, Pieces

  To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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• Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Interesting, Progress

  'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) ch. 17

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• It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

  Josh Groban

  Real, Mtv, Names

  Inside Connection magazine, February 2004.

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• The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

  Greg Egan

  Tough Times, May, Stranger

  Greg Egan, Matthew Kressel (2017). “Bifrost n° 88: Spécial Greg Egan”, p.226, Le Bélial

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• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Branches, Action, Preparedness

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.46, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Tough Times, Levels, Shapes

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