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Author:Stephen Baldwin

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.”

Way Giving Two Hard Fighting Giving Up Sitting Okay Two Ways Crossroads Hard Way

Author:Matthew Perry

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.”

Source: It's Always Something

“I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.”

People Way Should Mind Believe Humans Hard Seems Waiting Space Judging Honor I Have Learned Hard Way

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.”

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Author:Marilyn French

“"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.”

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Author:Cynthia Voigt

“I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.”

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Author:Cressida Cowell

“He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.”

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Book:Thirteenth Child

Source: Thirteenth Child

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)”

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Book:Dragonswan

Source: Dragonswan

“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”

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Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.”

Way Trying Long Hard Body Goal Rich Fool Bears Breaths Your Body Evolve Slips Entity Hard Way

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.”

Ifs Way Long Hard Hands Running Long Runs Way To Live Hard Way

Book:How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

Source: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

“Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.”

“We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.' 'What's the easy way?' 'You leave immediately.' 'And what's the hard way?' 'We make you leave.' Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?”

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Author:Derek Landy

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

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Book:The Fox Inheritance

Source: The Fox Inheritance

“You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.”

Way Mind Hard Night Found House Dark Ships Abandoned Frank Lurking Hard Way Old Houses Dark Things

Book:John Dies at the End

Source: John Dies at the End

“I learn things late-and only the hard way.”

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Author:James Ellroy

“Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.”

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Author:Graydon Carter

“For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.”

Ifs Way Hard Fighting Found Easy Common Team Figures Trusted Jason Common Ground Good Relationship Hard Way

Author:Rick Riordan

“Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“The right way is the hard way.”

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Author:Bikram Choudhury

“She did it the hard way.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.”

Way Hard Growing Up Growing Hard Times Hard Way

Author:Allen Iverson

“I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.”

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Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.”

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Author:Aubrey Newman

“Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."”

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Author:James Alexander Thom

“It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.”

“Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.”

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Author:Michael Keaton

“He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted”

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Author:Graham Earl

“Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”

People Way Long Hard Can Do Dope Hard Way

Book:Lady sings the blues

Source: Lady sings the blues

“Surround yourself with people who are doers!”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'”

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Author:Bette Davis

“I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way”

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Author:Holly Hunter

“Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.”

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Author:Todd Bridges

“The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away”

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Author:Colonel Sanders

“That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.”

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Author:Patti LaBelle

“My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.”

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Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.”

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Author:Carlos Castaneda

“I don't want people thinking of me sexually. I don't want people to be like, 'She's hot-looking,' you know? I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then. It just completely throws people off. I had a couple of offers to do some hot scenes in the shower with some guy and to make it real hot and sexy. The next thing you know, I'd be the next J.Lo or something. But that's easy. I want it the hard way.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.”

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Author:Kathy Ireland

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