Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"Life is rough so you gotta be tough."
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Rough
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Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Poems are rough notations for the music we are."
Vikram Seth
Poet, Novelist
"Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?"
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Poet, Writer
"Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused."
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"Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product."
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"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
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"...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them."
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"Rough Johnson, the great moralist."
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"My life was pretty rough."
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"It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work."
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"Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough."
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"I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me."
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"I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough."
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"I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing."
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