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Jai Ganesh

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Challenged Quotes

Challenged Quotes

1. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. - Carl Sagan

2. Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. - Boris Johnson

4. I'm always challenged by someone. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

5. I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. - Jim Carrey

6. In my entire career, only two actors challenged me as villain in my films. One is Raghuvaran's character of Mark Antony in 'Baasha' and Ramya Krishnan's portrayal of Neelambari in 'Padaiyappa.' - Rajinikanth

7. If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. - Jennifer Lopez

8. I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. - Nicolas Cage

9. I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else. - Rahul Dravid

10. I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. - Donald Trump

11. I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do. - Amitabh Bachchan.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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