Difficult Quotes
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Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.
Stephen Dunn
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
Gary Numan
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
Carine Roitfeld
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It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.
Radhika Apte
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
E. W. Howe
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
Sam Altman
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
Daniel Clowes
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
Gary Bettman
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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
Julia Roberts
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Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out.
Keiichi Tsuchiya
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Harold Pinter
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
Edgar Wright
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
Harri Holkeri
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In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
Carlos Ghosn
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
Ingmar Bergman
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Lao Tzu
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Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
Parker Posey
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A fight is a fight. And life is a fight. No matter how many fights you have under your belt, it will continue to be a learning experience. And you can never prepare yourself for every scenario. Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.
Erik Apple
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane Austen
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Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
Kate Forsyth
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
Hank Azaria