"Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new."
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"I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest."
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"The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood."
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"The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones."
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"To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable."
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"We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in."
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"Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge."
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"I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down."
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"It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a wonderful place to live. But because it is so diverse, our challenges are complex."
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"For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy."
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"Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is."
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"The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment."
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"The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers."
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"I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen."
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"I think screenwriter Steve Kloves does such a difficult job. And he does a bloody brilliant job, too. Transferring these Harry Potter books into films and making them coherent is one thing. But making them entertaining, as well, is quite another... He does a tremendous job, and he gets a lot of stick. And it's really unfair sometimes, and I challenge anyone else to do the job he does."
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"Theater gave me the confidence to believe I could play something else, 'cause it was so difficult. It was me out of my comfort zone. It gave me the confidence to believe that I could push myself and challenge myself and still succeed. Yeah. I'm very, very glad I did it. And I'm very keen, now, to take what I learned there into more television and film."
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"It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses."
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"Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West."
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"I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding."
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"I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in."
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