Trouble Quotes
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I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.
Tom Lehrer
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The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.
Molly Ivins
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One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
Sebastian Horsley
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I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
Natalie Portman
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I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
Dolly Parton
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
Stephen Sondheim
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Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
Stevie Smith
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
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If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
Brennan Manning
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
Stanley Kubrick
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Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
Stephen Covey
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
Sara Sheridan
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The trouble with people is they don't understand people.
David Goodis
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I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.
George Axelrod
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.
Ezra Pound
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Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.
Eric Maisel
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
Michael Morpurgo
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I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
Cat Deeley
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One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
Michael Shannon