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The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. -- Andrew Goodman
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. -- Mary Douglas
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. -- Barack Obama
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding. -- Patrick Rothfuss
It's always frustrating when you leave people on base. -- Danny Bautista
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating -- Sara Paretsky
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. -- Salma Hayek
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. -- Sam Ewing
I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times. -- Elizabeth Reaser
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance. -- Mindy Cohn
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. -- Cullen Hightower
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. -- Alton Brown
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give. -- Jacqueline Bisset
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers. -- George Pataki
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. -- Trevor Dunn
When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics. -- Keegan Bradley
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that. -- Billy Crystal
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. -- George H. W. Bush
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children. -- Neil Kurshan
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do -- Gina Gershon
A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis. -- Karen Duffy
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover. -- Billy Collins
In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China. -- Jung Chang
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. -- John Sexton
Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know? -- Caroline Dhavernas
One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it. -- Brendon Urie
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. -- Kurt Cobain
Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything. -- Dweezil Zappa
What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating. -- Bob Saget
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection. -- Denise Di Novi
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. -- Tatiana Maslany
The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. -- Robert Foster Bennett
That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about. -- Winona Ryder
I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets. -- Randy Pausch
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life. -- Yuvraj Singh
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time. -- Kanye West
A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want. -- Jack Canfield
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted. -- Randy Moss
Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort! -- Joyce Meyer
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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating. -- Steve Martin
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' -- Jason Dohring
Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. -- Peter Jackson
I never found it frustrating not speaking. -- David Selby
It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
Advertising can be a very frustrating business. -- Lee Clow
Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience. -- Etgar Keret
It's very frustrating not being on the air. -- Bruce Boxleitner
This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating. -- George W. Bush
There is nothing more frustrating than a good example. -- Mark Twain
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. -- William Hurt
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had -- Kurt Cobain
I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry. -- Bernard Hopkins
It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag. -- Pete Wentz
Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating. -- Lee Evans
Life is currently quite frustrating. However, it feels good to be alive. -- Eric Halvorsen
It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group. -- Ken Hensley
Get a sense of humor. If you don't, it'll be incredibly frustrating. -- Jon Stewart
Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating. -- Jim Coleman
It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry. -- Dionne Warwick
It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp. -- Jose Gonzalez
Love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. -- Taylor Swift
It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents? -- Chelsea Clinton
The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating. -- Bob Weir
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one. -- Olly Murs
Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience. -- Tom Ellis
Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge. -- Gary LeVox
It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything. -- Ravi Zacharias
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person. -- Tim Burton
I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. -- Ahmet Zappa
Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time. -- Andy Rooney
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. -- Criss Jami
I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies. -- Rob Zombie
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting. -- James Rosenquist
There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating. -- Ken Jennings
I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall. -- Misha Collins
Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years. -- Lleyton Hewitt
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. -- Jill Shalvis
If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating. -- Jenny Slate
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. -- Barbara Kingsolver
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. -- David Frum
It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all. -- Matt Tong
I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." -- Zoe Saldana
How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent. -- Lawrence Fagg
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. -- Rebecca Hall
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. -- Lee Bolman
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away) -- Yahtzee Croshaw
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. -- Rosanna Arquette
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me -- Rosanna Arquette
What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. -- Bill Hicks
Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head -- Michael Jackson
I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life. -- Jason Ritter
It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless. -- Dawn Angelique
I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit. -- Tim Berners-Lee
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany -- Alexandra Adornetto
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. -- Joshua Bell
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. -- Ethan Coen
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. -- Tom Conti
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for. -- Salman Rushdie
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. -- Colin Hay
Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life -- Garrison Wynn
People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. -- Kurt Vile
We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war. -- Ami Ayalon
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. -- Mira Sorvino
Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. -- Ed Bliss
The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff. -- Jerry Zucker
Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time. -- Ralph Marston
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy. -- Michael Mandelbaum
It's less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it [ Pretty Reckless ]; it's more frustrating that I still get asked about it. -- Taylor Momsen
I do my job but seldom feel content after matches. If the team wins I am happy, but it remains frustrating. -- Thomas Vermaelen

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