Quotes with hard-headed

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  • Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Abigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Günter Grass Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Ben Lovett As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bono As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Woody Allen As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Bryce Harper Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Philo of Alexandria Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Camilla Belle Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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