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Challenging American leadership is not at stake. -- Vladimir Putin
Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. -- Rick Santelli
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. -- Stephen Kinzer
Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment. -- Mo Ibrahim
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning. -- Marshall Ganz
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity. -- Carl Froch
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others... -- Tsem Tulku
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others... -- Tsem Tulku
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not. -- Kara Walker
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. -- David Warlick
Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. -- Patricia Hill Collins
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity. -- Thomas Paine
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? -- Hilton Als
At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am. -- Tinie Tempah
Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation. -- Ross W. Greene
Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it? -- Sidney Crosby
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging. -- Jonathan Ive
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. -- Joseph Campbell
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise. -- Joely Fisher
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. -- Mariella Frostrup
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. -- Willem Dafoe
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. -- Barbara de Angelis
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically. -- Brooke Burke
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. -- Therese Fowler
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. -- David Bowie
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. -- Les Brown
One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it. -- Dale Murphy
I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes. -- Janelle Monae
I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
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. -- Jonathan Davis
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get. -- Harbhajan Singh
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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. -- Julian Bond
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them. -- Philip Zimbardo
I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama! -- Charlie Crist
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror. -- Regina Brett
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name. -- Reza Aslan
I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life. -- Miranda Kerr
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. -- Paul Bloom
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art. -- Patrick Stump
Work is no longer challenging. -- John Belushi
Nothing like a challenging kill. -- Mordecai
I've had some physically challenging roles. -- Morris Chestnut
My father found cocktail parties challenging. -- Justin Trudeau
It's really challenging to play comedy. -- Michelle Monaghan
Consumer electronics is a challenging one. -- Kevin B. Rollins
I love challenging the status quo. -- Sara Ramirez
Never stop challenging yourself! Never loose enthusiasm! -- Haider Ackermann
Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life. -- Angelica Hopes
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible. -- Carol Moseley Braun
Books are challenging and inspirational to me. -- Amy Sedaris
I just want to do something challenging. -- Addison Timlin
I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate. -- Orlando Jones
The balancing act is challenging at times. -- Jeremy Jones
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself. -- Patrick J. Adams
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me. -- Nicholas Lea
Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
It's always challenging to go into a role. -- Jay Hernandez
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself -- Richard Branson
It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging. -- Vera Wang
Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging. -- Lee Clow
Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding. -- Lisa Rinna
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women. -- Kimberly Elise
There is always a solution to any challenging situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres. -- Debra Messing
The challenging times will bring you closer together in marriage. -- Bill Rancic
I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions. -- Owain Yeoman
Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths -- Brian Weiss
Honestly, it was pretty challenging working with a talking raccoon. -- Randy Quaid
May grace abound to you; you overcome any challenging situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day. -- Emily VanCamp
Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama. -- Kelli Berglund
Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing. -- Yuichiro Miura
Its hard to measure yourself if nobody is challenging you. -- John Tomac
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces. -- Jake Shimabukuro
Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge. -- Venus Williams
Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging. -- Michael Mayer
It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult. -- Rashida Jones
Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some. -- Iman Abdulmajid
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging. -- Stanley Tucci
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people. -- Denis Waitley
Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds. -- Arundhati Bhattacharya
Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential. -- Marty Nemko
I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging. -- Martin Winterkorn
Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer. -- Kathleen Robertson
I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging. -- Eli Wallach
Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way. -- Feist
Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing -- Guy Pearce
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging. -- Marla Gibbs
Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. -- William Russell
I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied. -- Bryan Greenberg
It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break. -- Martin Bashir
We live in a complex world and at a challenging time, -- Barack Obama
Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better. -- Robin Sharma
I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places. -- Jonathan Evison
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes. -- Bruce Beresford
The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane. -- T.F. Hodge
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. -- Val Kilmer
I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think. -- Morris Chestnut
I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest. -- Martin Frost
Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring. -- Ry Cooder
King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it. -- Adrian Belew
We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times. -- Raghuram Rajan
Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me]. -- Mark Wahlberg
I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills. -- Gretchen Carlson
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. -- Nathaniel Branden
If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging. -- Sandra Oh
I think that makeup can be challenging, especially when you are younger. -- Lauren Conrad
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part. -- St. Vincent
Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people. -- Millen Livis
To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. -- Nas
Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment. -- L. Ron Hubbard
When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging. -- Barack Obama

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