Quotes About Struggle

I realized so much of my college years were spent not wanting to be gay. I just imagined how different it would be if I were going through that experience in 2016 as opposed to 1984.

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you're the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.

We are used to the whistles of the opposing fans, but when we are booed by our own fans, it's hard to live with.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

At the end of the day, there's a line full of people that want to fight Canelo and there's champions that maybe fought better opposition than me, but the reason why is because these people didn't want to fight me.

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

An oppressed people will always rise.

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it.