Quotes with hard-hitting

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  • Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Marianne Moore A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Carly Craig After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Bruce Willis After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
    Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billie Holiday All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Scott Alexander All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Mark Twain All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jack Dempsey All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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  • Brendon Urie All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Brandt And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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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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