"I want to find things that challenge me."
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"Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful."
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"I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad."
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"This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts."
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"We have enormous challenges in front of us."
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"Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things."
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"Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority."
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"In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems."
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"You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job."
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"The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to."
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"I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off."
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"The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered."
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"I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical."
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"The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead."
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"We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe."
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"No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things."
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"I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist."
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"I think that makeup can be challenging, especially when you are younger."
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"I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those."
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"Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what."
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