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• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Topshop, Jewelry

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• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  Sally Phillips

  Hair, Blonde, Red

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the United States of America and the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act. The Patriot Act.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Cells, America

  "Your World Today" with Hala Gorani, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2006.

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• We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
  perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Wings, Kites

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Track, Trying

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• I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

  John Mulaney

  Cutting, Player, Cameras

  Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2011.

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• We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

  Kathy Acker

  Cracks, Rotten, World

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

  Retief Goosen

  Mean, Winning, Player

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• I didn't drown. I didn't break.

  Melissa Marr

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• People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

  Robert Mueller

  Wall, Agency, People

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• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Echoes, Listening, Tape

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Revenge, Fire

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• I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Dream, Break Out, Poverty

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• Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Kindness, Heart

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• A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Doors, Stories, Boundaries

  "TOMS founder credits success to curiosity, powerful story". Interview with Steve Kuhlmann, www.mrt.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

  Doug Wead

  Thinking, Kennedy Family, Catholic

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• No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Destiny, Divine

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• Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

  Chris Fabry

  Heart, Things To Do, Knows

  Chris Fabry (2010). “Almost Heaven”, p.119, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It's not Spring Break until somebody dies!

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Spring, Humor

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• Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Commitment, Self, Discipline

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Evil

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

  Kenneth Lay

  Law, Scandal, Corruption

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• To stay young,
  To save the world,
  Break the mirror.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Mirrors, World, Young

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• Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

  Kyra Davis

  Challenges, Needs, Faces

  Kyra Davis (2013). “Just One Night, Part 3: Binding Agreement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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