Quotes with hard-beaten

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  • Barbara Mikulski We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Wiles Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Hitopadesa What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Barkhad Abdi What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Seneca What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alice Walker What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
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    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Evelyn Ashford Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
    Evelyn Ashford
    American athlete (1957 - )
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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Robert Bridges When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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  • Sydney Justin Harris When I hear somebody sigh that ''Life is hard,'' I am always tempted to ask, ''Compared to what?''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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