“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.” HardUsedFatherPoorClassFiguresMastersMomHonorUniversityMy MomAcceptedNew OrleansContractor Author:Frank Ocean
“I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.” LongHardJobsUsedCrazyGoes OnEasierLong TimeHundredQuestsAuditionsGalaxy Author:Missi Pyle
“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.” PeopleFirstsCountryHardUsedFatherIndividualPresidentIslamAfrican AmericanHostilityAntagonismAmerican PresidentWorking Very Hard Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.” PeopleBelieveHardWantedUsedArtistSongMy OwnRecordsSawsIndustryMountainBuiltReputationLabelsBelieve In MeSongwritersClownRecord Labels Author:Emeli Sande
“I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.” ThinkingHardRememberUsedCertainHabitOppositionBureaucratsUkrainianOld Habits Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“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.” ThinkingKindHardUseAbleUsedYouthEmotionalApproachSingingWorking ItJust Being Author:K. D. Lang
“I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.” LooksHardUsedDifficultTwentiesMirrorsDifficult Times Author:Janet Jackson
“The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.” HardCharacterUsedLiteratureFictionDrinkingNewspapersUsed To Be Author:Waverley Root
“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?” ThinkingSometimesHardUsedCultureAirSubjectsExtremesBreatheCommentMainstreamPopular Culture Author:Lauren Greenfield
“I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.” SometimesHardHandsUsedCoursesCooksKneesOperaHorsebackNeedlework Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
“A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.” HardUsedKnownClearFireMastersRiceLanternsZen MasterDunces Author:Rajneesh
“Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.” FeelsTryingHardFactsRunningUsedFightingUnderstoodHard TimesMmaRunning AwayDealing With It Author:Rashad Evans
“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored” IfsWayTryingTwoHardPlayUsedCertainLevelsHard WorkBallsTricksExperimentsDawnTennisScoreTargetSheerDuskOne On OneToilingTennis Balls Author:Zinedine Zidane
“We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.” TryingHardUsedFeltTrying Too Hard Author:J. J. Abrams
“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.” PeopleKnowsPersonsTwoHardShowsRunningRememberUsedBlackRocksMonthsBlack PeopleRemember WhenHboBlack Person Author:Scott Raab
“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardReasonUsedProcessParticularInstanceReason WhyProgramming Author:Gerald Jay Sussman
“When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.” HardRunningUsedDifficultCareersComfortableShoesBarefoot Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.” TryingHardRememberUsedVoiceExerciseYaleClearingOlden DaysSinuses Author:Meryl Streep
“I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.” ThinkingHardUsedFoundGoalCareersPoliceOfficersPolice Officer Author:Ronnie Coleman
“Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.” IfsWellsHardDoneYoungUsedPlayerBobLiverpoolWell DoneSuperlativesPaisley Author:Paul Jewell
“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer