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It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.
As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.
We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.
For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
You're going to go through some tough stretches. You've got to continue to stay positive, continue to press through it.
I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.
I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.
Jon Fitch is a great opponent, a tough opponent, but St. Pierre brings the whole backing of Canada with him to a fight.
The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.
I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.
Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.
It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.
Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.
Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.
It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .
When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.
I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?'
You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.
I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.
I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.