On my first day in office as Ohio attorney general, I authorized Ohio to join the multistate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare.
I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions – that’s behind my curiosity.
As long as something is fun and you’re enjoying it and it’s challenging you, then I’m there and I’m happy to do it.
It’s really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It’s really challenging.
Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It’s just you out there with no rope. You can’t call time out; you’re on a roller coaster.
Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.
When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, ‘What wisdom did I learn from that?’
One of the things that happens that’s challenging within the democratic process is that people say, ‘Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.’ And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn’t work that well.
Making a mark becomes more challenging when you are a part of a multi-starrer. But I like that.
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.
I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don’t want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral.
We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that’s easily relatable.
I’ve purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There’s some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it’s become very corporate, the independent scene.
We’re apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but… it is flattering and of course challenging.
I actually had someone say to me, ‘Lynn, you’re going to have very good days, and you’re going to have very bad days. But It’s rare that things are as good as they look, and it’s rare that things are as bad as they seem.’ So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.
When I signed ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ a lot of directors told me that I shouldn’t be doing the role of a mother so early in my career. But I went ahead, as I aspire to do challenging roles.
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.
Politics is challenging for everyone’s integrity… I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I’m not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.
I’ve been on a lot of sets, and I’ve been around a lot of directors, and I’ve been working for many years now, but stepping in the shoes of being the decision maker and the guy that everybody is relying on at some point, yeah, it was challenging for sure. One thing is that you’re responsible for a large group of people.
Coming to YG entertainment as a trainee was one of the most challenging yet most life changing periods of my life.
You’re really creative when you’re in an environment that you don’t know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
I love doing emotional scenes. As I’ve had a perfect life, I don’t really have much to pull from. But it’s really fun and not that challenging. It’s almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That’s a really hard thing.
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that’s in publishing or politics. But it’s not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don’t even have the foresight to know what it’s going to be.
‘Stomp the Yard’ was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It’s the reason I live in Atlanta to this day, that film. But as far as acting goes, it wasn’t very challenging. I played me.
I was a gay kid who didn’t know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.
One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
It’s always challenging when you’re shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.
Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven’t come across one yet that I can’t tackle.
You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.
Unlike what people assume, it is more challenging when you work with people whom you are comfortable with, because they know what you are coming up with, and hence, they expect you to deliver something new or different.
I am very proud of my role in ‘Singularity.’ It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.
The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.
We’ve all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It’s a normal feeling when things don’t go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it’s challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.
It’s fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn’t say or act in ways I normally wouldn’t act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.
What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
When you’re a touring musician, you’re always turning over new rocks, and there’s always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
The challenging times will bring you closer together in marriage.
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it’s faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
