Quotes About Challenges

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

When you get out of the military, all you are doing is a work-up for the longest deployment of your life.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

Life happens, honey. What are you going to do? Cry in a bowl of milk?

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in roles in Chicago that I never would have gotten cast in possibly if I had come to New York right away. I got to be the not-your-typical-choice for a role.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

The seas are rising, and millions of people are going to be affected by that - and already are. We have to make sure there's enough food, water, and air.

Who would've thought that Milwaukee would be the best thing for my career?

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

I've always had a struggle trying to get a hair campaign. It's mind-boggling.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

My mindset, when it came to wrestling, was more the reasons why I could, not the reasons why I couldn't, which is how you should look at, like, everything in life.

No matter how hard it got, I've always been fortunate enough, thinking I'm actually lucky to be here.' I always took that mindset.