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I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.' -- Liam Neeson
The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Babies are never suicidal. Hard lives, not hard boiled eggs do that. -- Brian Spellman
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs? -- Billy Wilder
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. -- Wilson Mizner
I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy. -- Christine Teigen
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. -- John Banville
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. -- James M. Cain
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth? -- Lady Gregory
I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there. -- Martina McBride
I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish. -- Ken Bruen
Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West. -- John Woo
There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address. -- Kurt Braunohler
It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore. -- Morris Dees
It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly. -- Tom Douglas
When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat. -- John Woo
I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch. -- Ana Ortiz
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. -- Alan Furst
Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes. -- Alice Waters
I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil. -- Jill Scott
I always have hard-boiled eggs with me to eat egg whites for protein. Even when I travel, I bring eggs with me so I don't eat the plane food. Yes, I'm the person you do not want to sit next to with hard-boiled eggs. -- Marissa Jaret Winokur
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing. -- Megan Abbott
Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! -- Terry Pratchett
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. -- Mason Cooley
I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. -- Dorothy Parker
I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy, -- Chrissy Teigen
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. -- Ernest Hemingway
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. -- Maya Angelou
Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking." -- David Letterman
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy. -- B. C. Forbes
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new. -- George Pelecanos
So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of. -- Dashiell Hammett
'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West. -- John Woo
Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting. -- Tanya Luhrmann

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