"I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i."
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"The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time."
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"We are wiser than we know."
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"The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me to figure out how we solve this problem that they're concerned about, and either they don't engage out of the sense of purity - "I'm not going to shake his hand" - or you're not sufficiently prepared so you don't even know what to ask for, or you're not being strategic as an activist and trying to figure out how the process has to work in order for you to get what you want."
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"I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life."
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"So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?"
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"I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways."
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"Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them."
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"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in"
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"when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention."
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"Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never."
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"I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it."
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"I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me."
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"I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great."
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"With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents."
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"We don't belong here, but in the spiritual sky: As l'm fated for the material world, Get frustrated in the material world, Senses never gratified, Only swelling like a tide, That could drown me in the material world."
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"You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me."
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"I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it."
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"Trump is not somebody who`s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country."
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"Faster economic growth helps raise the economy which raises revenues. And that helps us tackle the deficit. There's two things we've got to do to get rid of this debt. Deal with entitlements, that's why we're frustrated health care reform hasn't passed the senate yet."
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