Quotes 41 till 60 of 171.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
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I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.
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I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
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I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
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If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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