Quotes with hard-headed

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  • Carol Moseley Braun It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Tommy Lasorda Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Booker T. Washington Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
    Up From Slavery (1901) ch. XII
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Ford Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Horace When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Shakespeare Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Horace You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bill Hader 'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Denzel Washington A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • John Heywood A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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