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		I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Victoria Pendleton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Though the terrain of frustration may be vast - from a stubbed toe to an untimely death - at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alain de Botton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joshua Michael Stern
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emile Lahoud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Galenson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Fried
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Wellstone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edwin Clarence Riegel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joseph Heller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Cameron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry Kirshbaum
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leif Garrett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Olaf Stapledon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Camille Henrot
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Parminder Nagra
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Hanna
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We're the only developed country on Earth where this happens. ... And it happens once a week. And it's a one-day story. ... The country has to do some soul-searching on this.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Shanker