I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.
Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.
You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.
Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.
The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.
I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.
A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
From what I've understood, it's an entirely different world, and it's a tough world to get your foot in the door, but I've always wanted to be a voice of a Disney character.
The schedule is tough in tennis.
There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.
Business is tough; you need tough guys.
Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.
You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.
I guess I was a pretty tough kid.
Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
