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My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. -- Casey Abrams
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. -- Amy Chua
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working. -- John C. Maxwell
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. -- Jack Black
Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow? -- Jack Black
I'm not tough. I'm tenacious. -- Padma Lakshmi
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. -- Paul de Man
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. -- Roger Penrose
Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible. -- Ana Gasteyer
I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented. -- David Brock
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine. -- Christian Louboutin
Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. -- Kathryn Bigelow
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. -- Patricia Ireland
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously. -- Art Alexakis
I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that. -- Doug Liman
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous. -- Nancy Grace
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. -- Honore de Balzac
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. -- Neil Gaiman
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. -- Koichi Tanaka
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. -- Sergey Brin
Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning. -- David Oyelowo
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. -- Kit Williams
Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger. -- Richard Shelby
If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you. -- Dane Cook
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything. -- Neil Burger
I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not. -- Thom Mayne
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. -- Ellen Key
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice. -- Tabatha Coffey
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it. -- J. C. Watts
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.' -- Ellen Barkin
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers. -- Alexandre Dumas
I think women directors have to be really tenacious. -- Jamie Babbit
An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success. -- Steve Ballmer
The silliest people are usually the most tenacious of their opinions. -- Lady Sarah Pennington
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious -- Declan Donnellan
I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me. -- Jeff Tremaine
I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right. -- Garry Shandling
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up. -- Morgan Spurlock
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world. -- Alice Neel
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. Itâ??s an addiction to break. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. -- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me. -- Cindy McCain
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals. -- Helen Keller
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are. -- Pema Chodron
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Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story. -- Laurie Garrett
You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it. -- Jessica Alba
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. -- Gerrit Smith
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. -- Shirley Hufstedler
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience. -- John Ortberg
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them -- Walter Benjamin
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win. -- Bear Grylls
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors. -- Robert Fulghum
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it -- James Russell Lowell
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work. -- Dan Levitan
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation. -- Stephen King
Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities. -- Robert Higgs
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work. -- John Eliot
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. -- Malak El Halabi
Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past. -- Tony Robbins
beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ... -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature. -- Kate Millett
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success. -- Steve Ballmer
You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside. -- Robert Greene
The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. -- George Will
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally. -- Greg Lake
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. -- Albert Memmi
Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad. -- Justin Timberlake
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. -- Laozi
This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do! -- Oliver DeMille
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The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture. -- Douglas Groothuis
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince -- Edward Gibbon
Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are... -- Robert L. Bartley

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