Break Quotes - Page 28

• I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Noble, Want, Pursuit

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

  Susie Orbach

  Body, Down And, Firsts

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• If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

  Angelina Grimke

  Law, Suffering, Sin

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin

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• The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Diversity, Triumph, Fields

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• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

  Alberto Salazar

  Years, Giving, Training

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

  Alberto Salazar

  Years, Two, Long

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

  Johnny Miller

  Player, Green, Want

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• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

  Agnes Smedley

  Successful, Europe, Forever

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• I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

  Brandy Norwood

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative Juices

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• Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

  Julian Baggini

  Broken, Needs, Might

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  Danica McKellar

  Opportunity, Ucla, Years

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• When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Ebay, Amazon

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

  Andrew Shue

  Running, Years, Choices

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• I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.

  Leighton Meester

  People, Parent, Choices

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

  Joy Bryant

  Girl, Ghetto, Kind

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• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  Manu Bennett

  Team, Kids, Australia

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• I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

  MyAnna Buring

  Trying, Actresses, Tvs

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• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  Paget Brewster

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  Paget Brewster

  House, Trying, Fine

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• I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

  Brooke Burns

  Necks, Classic, Broke

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• I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

  Demian Bichir

  Giving, Acting, Actors

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• When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

  Eric Bana

  Jobs, Home, Goes On

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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