Tough Quotes - Page 7

• It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

  Matt Dillon

  Men, Judging, Trying

  "The Development of an Actor". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 12, 1995.

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• I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Children, Kids, Would Be

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• Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

  James Fenton

  World, Tough World

  The Times, February 21, 1985.

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• My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Real, Grandfather

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• I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

  Leon Uris

  Used, Advantage, Ruthless

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

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• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mean, Idols, Voice

  "Beyonce and Christina Bare All in W Magazine". www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Fighting, Russia, Roles

  "Interview: British Historian Timothy Garton Ash On Europe's Future". Interview with Rikard Jozwiak, www.rferl.org. March 16, 2013.

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• I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 22, 2014.

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• We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

  James Gunn

  Cynical, World, Being Cool

  Source: collider.com

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• President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Tough Times, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, Shoes, Safe

  "Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile". www.washingtonpost.com. January 26, 2007.

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• "I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Guy, Unexpected, Conferences

  "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke, (p. 291), 1998.

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• The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Levels, May, Safe

  "Hit Where It Hurts" by Theodore Kaczynski, "Why The System Is Tough", point 4, 2002.

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• I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me. There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself.

  Ali Larter

  Opportunity, Men, Tv Shows

  "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter". www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.

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• It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

  Eva LaRue

  Character, Thinking, Consistency

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• Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

  John McCain

  War, Fool, Fraud

  "Talk of War and Family Highlights McCain’s Kickoff Commercial" by Julie Bosman, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2008.

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• I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Writing, Loving What You Do

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• When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

  Frank Oz

  People, Three, Credit

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

  Jerry Glanville

  Football, Running, Balls

  "Glanville Looking for a Little More Action at Portland State". ESPN.com, August 09, 2007.

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• Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Plato, Tangled, Might

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.177, Harvard University Press

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• These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

  James McNerney

  Negative, Unusual, Economic

  "3M Plans to Cut 1,000 More Jobs". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2002.

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• It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.

  Tim Purpura

  Running, Home, Player

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• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  Wes Walz

  Team, Fall, Adversity

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• We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.

  Gary Pruitt

  Able, Advertising, Environment

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• When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Fighting, Gun, Thinking

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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