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As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks. -- Gloria Allred
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. -- Jeanette Winterson
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. -- D. H. Lawrence
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks. -- Joe Cocker
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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. -- Enrico Colantoni
There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose. -- Charles M. Schwab
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. -- Les Brown
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. -- Menander
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. -- Plautus
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. -- Stefan Zweig
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. -- Albert Einstein
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience. -- Max Anders
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. -- David Livermore
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -- D. H. Lawrence
Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox. -- Chuck D
I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries. -- Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace. -- T.F. Hodge
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A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward. -- Caterina Fake
I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity. -- Lana Del Rey
By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available. -- Gifford Pinchot
The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy. -- Greg Giraldo
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up. -- Joel Edgerton
I really like 'Hard-Knock Life' because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it's such a strong number. -- Lilla Crawford
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!' -- Ireland Baldwin
It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top. -- Allan McNish
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel. -- Junot Diaz
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway. -- Joanna Trollope
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. -- Harvey Fierstein
Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact. -- Dustin Moskovitz
Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer. -- David Heyman
Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines. -- David Ayer
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. -- Henry Ford
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. -- Peter McWilliams
I have a doctorate degree from the School of Hard Knocks. I studied door-to-door salesmanship. This was before the doorbell was invented. -- Jarod Kintz

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