Tricky Quotes

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

Life, Thought, Whole

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'Rourke

Education, Health, Positive

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
Ellen DeGeneres

Home, Sleep, Two

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Life, Full, Snakes

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey

Long, Down, Enough

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
Bjork

Nature, Care, Themselves

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
Simon Travaglia

Life, Death, Happen

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
Helena Bonham Carter

Time, Heart, Children

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair

Politics, Time, Another

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
Maurice Sendak

Business, Wrong, Goes

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky

Smart, Simple, Problem

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
Daniel Craig

History, Matter, Point

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
Eli Wallach

Life, Business, Person

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
Rainn Wilson

Times, Charity, Equate

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
Christian Bale

Career, Find, Plan

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
Laura Linney

Orange, Tanning

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
Jason Reitman

Good, Boring, Making

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.
Craig Ferguson

Happy, Why, Try

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
Nate Silver

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman

Truth, Tell, Word

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Maya Lin

Art, Yourself, Works

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
Vera Farmiga

Yourself, Become, Place

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.
Jennifer Garner

Good, Help, Difficult

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.
Steve Coogan

Hate, Laugh, Bit

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
Tom Cruise

Life, Find, Play

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich

Feeling, Pride, Glorious

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
Elisabeth Rohm

Work, Business, Working

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
Donella Meadows

Task, Forests, Farms

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
Minnie Driver

Celebrity, Area, Navigate

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Leo Burnett

Words, Secret, Pictures

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