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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Wendell L. Willkie In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Ben Affleck In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Billy Bush In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Cowley It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Margot Asquith It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • William Hazlitt It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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