#struggle

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype. ↗

— John Amos

#ongoing #part #perpetuation #say #stereotype

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#dare #grin #i #i always #say

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#creative-process #struggle #writers #writing #authority

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#endured #even #i #i came #island

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#economic #forward #hand #internationalism #isolationism

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#always #cycling #excellence #going #i

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#care #concerned #doctor #election #experiences

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

#i #i think #inner #lot #people