Top 100 It's Very Hard Quotes
#1. It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.
Stuart J. Russell
#2. I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
Marilyn Manson
#3. It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.
Margaret Cho
#4. It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
Bill McKibben
#5. I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant ...
Darren Hayes
#6. It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.
Mark Pellegrino
#7. It's very hard for me to say "Do I have favorite?" because I find that each song represents a different sounds different emotions in Andy's [Kim] life. Particularly "Sister OK", 'cos that started everything.
Kevin Drew
#8. I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
Angie Harmon
#9. Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions - light and darkness mixed.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#10. It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.
Joe Dante
#11. I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!
Helen Mirren
#12. I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.
Mike Curb
#13. It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate,
Ivanka Trump
#14. It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
Maurice Gibb
#15. It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
John Carney
#16. It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
Rick Astley
#17. It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.
Joshua Sasse
#18. I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
#19. Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.
John C. Malone
#20. It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.
Olivia Newton-John
#21. So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.
Larry Ellison
#22. It's very hard to remain a student in life.
Carol Kane
#23. I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.
Bruce Springsteen
#24. It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
Chris Martin
#25. It's very hard to try to be a cultural ... people who organize cultural things ... it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.
Luis Gonzalez
#26. And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
Dennis Muren
#27. Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.
Neil Gaiman
#28. I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
Stephen Fry
#29. The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.
Chelsea Handler
#30. My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
Claire McCaskill
#31. We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#32. Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.
Stacy Keach
#33. You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
Barnes Wallis
#34. It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer
#35. You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
Paula Scher
#36. The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.
Pierce Brosnan
#37. ...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain reminds you of your pain. All of it reminds you of how bad it felt, how hard it was, how much you wanted and needed and didn't get. It's very hard.
Sarah Dunn
#38. Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
#39. It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aware of the injustices, and you're aware of the civilian casualties. It's much easier if you have no idea and you've never seen it.
Lynsey Addario
#41. It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
Tom Waits
#42. It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.
Bill Maher
#43. It's very hard when you do photocalls. You have to be on time, you have to be all cheesy smiles, and have your hair and make-up done, and be into it. It's not like a photoshoot. You have to really put the cheese factor in. I think you have to be more willing to go for it.
Georgia Salpa
#44. The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.
Noam Chomsky
#45. If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
Andrew Greeley
#46. I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
Dennis Quaid
#47. It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
Alain De Botton
#48. It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry ... but I do.
Joe Nichols
#49. When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For
Gloria Steinem
#50. Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.
Michelle Paver
#51. When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.
Nicholas G. Carr
#52. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#53. If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Stephen Covey
#54. It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.
Ben Stein
#55. Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak
#56. If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine "now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"
Hooman Majd
#57. It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.
Joyce Carol Oates
#58. When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.
George Meyer
#59. It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.
Wim Wenders
#60. Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
Winifred Kirkland
#61. Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
Salma Hayek
#62. There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
Zach Galligan
#63. I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah ... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.
Jim Bolger
#64. It's very hard not to commit cancer suicide in America.
Jonathan Ames
#65. For several years he hadn't moved outside a large, airy room, but this was OK, because he spent most of his time inside his own head in any case. There's a certain type of person it's very hard to imprison.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.
Charisma Carpenter
#67. It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
David Mamet
#68. The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#69. I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.
Gloria Estefan
#70. It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
Nathan Myhrvold
#71. It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.
Gerald Fischbach
#72. Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
Abraham Lincoln
#73. I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
Robert Smith
#74. When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.
Chad Hurley
#75. When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
Yaya Toure
#76. When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.
Ward Cunningham
#77. Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.
Aaron Zigman
#78. It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.
Reginald Rose
#79. It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
Jack Wild
#80. I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.
Norm MacDonald
#81. It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.
Doug Liman
#82. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas
Vanessa Moore
#83. It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when you're always bringing them your most exhausted self and resenting the fact that the scraps you're giving them aren't cutting it.
Shauna Niequist
#84. It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
Donald Johanson
#85. It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
David R. Brower
#86. It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
Jed S. Rakoff
#87. You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.
Kelly Link
#88. It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
Anton Chekhov
#89. As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
Joel Kinnaman
#90. It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.
Ram Dass
#91. It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.
E.L. James
#93. No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.
Tamora Pierce
#94. I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.
Newt Gingrich
#95. With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.
Debra Granik
#96. I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.
Kevin Spacey
#97. There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart. It's very hard to do that, but that's why you surround yourself with good people. Or write a song!
Aino Jawo
#98. It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.
Jesse Eisenberg
#99. Let's drop the war.'
'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z
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