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I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
If my style is too direct for some, maybe they should toughen up a bit.
Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.
I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.
If I'm ever wearing a super-flowy dress, I like to toughen it up with a boot or something.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough - you learn at a very young age to toughen up.
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
When I was growing up as a kid, it was always, 'Oh, you're being bullied. Well, toughen up. Get some tough skin and deal with it.' That's how we were told to deal with it, and it's not that simple.
I had to learn to toughen up and fend for myself. You'd think when you have a lot of brothers and sisters, they'd come to your aid and rescue you a lot of times, but for us it wasn't really like that. It was tough love.
I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.
Even if you're an optimist, there's some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, 'This isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen.' I really felt that way through the process of 'Korra' because I knew 'Avatar,' and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.
If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
