“On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.” PeopleHas BeensMadeHardShowsAgeHalfTalkingPlayerMinutesSeriousBonesHard TimesJealousOne MinuteSerious ThingsMadeleines Author:Bill Maher
“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'” GivingYearsWarHardReasonStruggleCoupleVoteIraqThings To DoRight ThingHard TimesIraq War Author:Tony Blair
“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.” PeopleWantMindHardCultureEnergyHoursTaughtInternetFocusedNervousThese DaysUncomfortableHard TimesStayingDistractionJust Being Author:Geneen Roth
“You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.” FeelsHumansSometimesHardMistakeShareReputationHard TimesNeighborhoodAlrightHaving A Hard TimeBad Reputation Author:Billy Joel
“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.” PeopleIfsGivingHardFightingOpportunityDifficultChanceWorryOur LivesWindowWake UpCornersBitterHard TimesDifficult TimesAround The Corner Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.” WantGivingFeelsLittlesDifferentHardEffectsLike YouHard TimesBellsLiftingVodkaKettles Author:Bill Murray
“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.” HardNextStrongGrowsMonthsHard TimesQuartersSpainRecessions Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.” ThinkingWayHardRememberAudienceSeeingIncrediblesHard TimesConcertsInvited Author:John Lurie
“I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.” HardPrideHard TimesIncorrigible Author:Joe Satriani
“A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.” HardFateHeroPopulationWorthyCelebrateHard TimesPhiladelphiaPredictingFederalist Author:Ilana Mercer
“Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides” MenSometimesHardYoungWifeBenefitsFindingsChinaYoung ManHard TimesUnexpectedVillageElectricityBridesProvincesArrivals Author:Christopher Flavin
“I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.” HardPlayWantedFilmCitiesBoysMy FavoriteRageFatsBoxingHard TimesBullsBoxersGreat BoxingRaging Bull Author:Holt McCallany
“My new single 'I'm Gonna show you crazy' is really about knowing it's okay to not be okay. It's not about being legit crazy it's about feeling like you're an outsider and there's nothing wrong with that. I was bitter during that time in my life but I needed that. It helped shaped me and my music. Going through a hard time makes you a better person. Going through hell those two years was worth it.” YearsPersonsTwoHardShowsFeelingsHellKnowingCrazyLike YouNeededOkayBitterHard TimesTwo YearsOutsidersWorth ItBetter PersonLegit Author:Bebe
“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.” PeopleThinkingSelfSometimesHardProblemPastGivenStruggleOne ThingConstantBonesRidiculousThanksCrushHard TimesTragicInsecurityUpbringing Author:Mark Oliver
“No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about things in the future that haven't happened yet, and people have a hard time believing what's gonna happen. Secondly, I'm almost always a contrarian, whatever direction everybody else is going in, I'm probably figuring out a way to go in a completely opposite direction.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsBelieveMatterHardHappensTalkingHappenedCrazyHavensOppositesNo Matter WhatHard Times Author:Trip Hawkins
“Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.” GivingTryingKindLongHardEnoughStudyBuddhismLong TimeGive MeBuddhistHard TimesCourtesyLong Time AgoRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?” MeanHardHard TimesTape Author:Brendan Fraser
“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.” IfsTryingYearsSaidHardWisdomPoliticsAnswersNumbersEconomyTroubleLateYears AgoMachinesIncreaseSellsUnionsPlantDuesConsumersOfficialsHard TimesLiberalismOwnersLogicalCollectingAutomobileOhioClevelandCleveland Ohio Author:Ronald Reagan
“All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.” GivingHardGuyRoomsGive MeHard TimesCall MeNbaRobinsLockersJustinLocker RoomGrooming Author:Chandler Parsons
“I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.” IfsSaidStillsHardBigsJobsCreativeHard TimesPotSaying No Author:Jeremy Renner
“The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.” WantHardDesireJesusEasyHurtPerfectKnowingAspectDisappointmentRuinsMiserableHard TimesLacking Author:Kay Arthur
“In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.” HardProsperityPreservesHard TimesEquanimity Author:Horace