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Katie Hoff Swimmer
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"I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat."

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Frida Giannini Fashion Designer
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"It was very tough with Madonna at the beginning of the meeting because I was very embarrassed. But I'm a strong woman who knows what I want and what I'm doing, and I think that when you have very clear ideas in your life, you can have conversations with everyone."

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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
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"I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on."

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Juan Williams Journalist
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"I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough."

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Matthew Lewis Actor, Author
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"You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on that. Alan Rickman actually suggested to me that I should try it. And I thought, "Geez, I really don't want to do that." But he must have recommended it for a reason, so when an opportunity came up, I took it. And it was tough. It was hard! But by the end of it, I absolutely loved it."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen."

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