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• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Kristin Hersh

  Guitar, Media, Play

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• You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

  Shaun White

  Land, Legs, Hard

  Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.

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• I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Years, Different, Albums

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• Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

  Vernon Howard

  Heaven, Specifications

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• Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Pain, Disappointment, Communication

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• Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

  Amanda Marshall

  Heart, Stories, Break Your Heart

  Song: Everybody's Got A Story, Album: Everybody's Got a Story, 2001

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• The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.

  Dale Watson

  Heart, Artist, Avid

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• Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

  Robert Breault

  Who We Are, Knows

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• Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

  Robert Breault

  Silence, Doe, Sometimes

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sex, Pain

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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• We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Men, House

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• I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

  Patrice Evra

  Soccer, Football, Rip

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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Watches, Looks

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• When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.

  Barrett Brown

  Mean, Fighting, Agency

  "Barrett Brown Sentenced to Five Years, Vows to Keep Investigating Government Wrongdoing". Interview with Michelle Garcia, theintercept.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Sometimes in common relationships,i ts hard to break the Ice,so just look hot and you'll melt it

  Shannon Leto

  Ice, Hot, Looks

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Ocean, Eye

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Envelopes, Way

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2778, e-artnow

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• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Reality, Play

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• The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

  Michael Tanner

  Government, Opposites, Welfare Programs

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• Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

  Samantha Harris

  Cancer, Fighting, Positivity

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• I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

  Amy Sedaris

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Japan, Break Through

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Community, Police

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• God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass

  Malvina Reynolds

  Tired, Trying, Cracks

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