Tough Quotes

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

Life is supposed to get tough.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.