Quotes with hard-headed

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  • Bob Rae The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Big Pun The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carl Hiaasen The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Nelson Algren The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Caroline Knapp The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Ben Foster The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Callum Keith Rennie The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • George Orwell The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Billie Jean King The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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