"Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough."
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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
"I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats."
"I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!"
"I love kids, but they are a tough audience."
"Life is tough, then you die."
"Neutrality is a tough call for the weaker ones."
"Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things."
"I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it."
"Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force."
"Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why."
"Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art."
"The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it."
"I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough."
"That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire"
"We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead."
"I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me."
"Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide."
"Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough."
"Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler."