Difficult Quotes
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There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
Kathleen Tessaro
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Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.
Richard Feynman -
The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.
Belinda Peregrín -
It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
Mike Figgis -
I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!
Witold Gombrowicz -
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Seneca the Younger -
The men and the women in the CIA, they do their job regardless of who is in the White House. Same for NSA. Same for FBI. These men and women are putting themselves in harm's way. Have to deal with difficult situations.
Will Hurd
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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
Eudora Welty -
The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
Lao Tzu -
What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.
Michael Leunig -
If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
George H. Brimhall -
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
Joseph Priestley -
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
Melissa George
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Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
Catherine Deneuve -
That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
Hermann Hesse -
We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.
Tilda Swinton -
It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.
Leven Rambin -
The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.
Carlo Blasis -
It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.
Carl Douglas
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If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.
Tiger Woods -
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Claudio Magris -
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.
Michael Novak -
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli