Quotes with trouble

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  • Philip Roth How far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Anita Roddick I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Anthony Holden I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Jane Austen I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
    Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Agatha Christie I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
    An Autobiography (1977) part III, sect. 2
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bryan Adams I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Groucho Marx I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
    Variety, June 1941
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
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  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Broderick Crawford I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Tom Lehrer I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • James Thurber I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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