Quotes About Struggle

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine.

I didn't know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn't fit in an obvious box.

It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.

I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.

I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

My mom obviously had a problem.

Obviously there are a lot of charities out there but with cancer you have to be lucky to have not been affected by it or not know anybody who has had it.

That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're happy for anything you can get.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it's boring.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.