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“It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.”

Giving Years Matter Hard Facts Able Responsibility Periods Giving Up Research Productive Matter Of Fact Administrative

Author:George Andrew Olah

“Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Country Hard Able Criticism Albums Hard Times Bless Getting Old God Bless Ageism

Author:Guy Oseary

“I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.”

Ifs Knows Long Hard Dream Able Wanted Winning Felt Determination Tennis Motivated Long Life Slam Stay Motivated Drive And Determination

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Sometimes Hard Play Whole Able Bits Creating Guitar Honestly Tone Spectrum Laid Back

Author:Angus Young

“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.”

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Author:K. D. Lang

“Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.”

Hard Able Enjoy Class Middle Hard Work Promise Labor Lifetime Fruit Secure Middle Class Retiring Medicare

Author:Al Franken

“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.”

Has Beens Hard Able Parent Rooms Watches Son Blessed Enlightened Locks

Author:A. Scott Berg

“I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.”

Feels Hard Able Week Sea Exhausted Relaxation Working So Hard Resting And Relaxation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

People Thinking Hard Body Would Be Able Moving Challenges Space Walks Silence Okay Be Good Stillness Interacting

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].”

Heart Hard Able Motivation Sports Hard Work Baseball

Author:Bengie Molina

“Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.”

Believe Hard Able Rooms Records Broken Phones Lawyer Russia Stolen Files Pistols Hard To Believe Armed Guards

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”

Self Hard Able Opportunity Force Missing Prove Survival Illusion Driving Painter Extras Ambitious Driving Force Sceptic Publicists

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

Hard Able Games Vanity Heroic Confessing

Author:Alice James

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.”

I Can Hard Running Able Mother Waiting Worst My Family Driving Drivers Genes

Author:Emma Watson

“While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Years Believe Wells Looks Long Different Hard Stories Able Romance I Believe Natural Steps Keys Sticks Marketing Defined Genre Odd Tricky Niche Balancing Act

Author:JoAnn Ross

“You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day”

Hard Able Night Enjoy Sleep Good Night

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.”

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Author:Seth Klarman

“I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.”

Knows Men Want Looks Hard Able Opportunity Know How Best Work

Author:Tina Fey

“We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.”

War Hard Able America Choices Strong Nations Conflict Resources Engaged Limited Resources Defending America

Author:Leon Panetta

“I'm just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn't hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.”

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Author:LeBron James

“The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.”

Way Giving Hard Able Moving Poor Policy Hard Work Empowering Neighborhood

Author:Katie Pavlich

“It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.”

People Way Writing Hard Play Able Together Song Guitar Songwriters

Author:Jack White

“Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do”

Thinking Want Hard Able Hard Work Percent What You Want Delusion

Author:Tina Fey

“As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.”

Thinking Way Giving Trying Wells Hard Able Turns Fall Known Middle Critics Mediums Reviews Well Known Thumbs Flip Binary Middle Ground Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

Author:Gene Siskel

“Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.”

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Author:Jon Lovitz

“I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.”

Want Hard Kids Able Certain

Author:Ace Hood

“Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it.”

Writing Stills Ends Sometimes Hard Helping Able Havens Hard Times Help Me

Author:Sarah Kay

“Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.”

Country Hard Able Hell Products Amount Politician Ego Selling

Author:George Clooney