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• I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?

  Charles Kimbrough

  Feelings, Acting, Want

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• It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

  Janet Jackson

  Attitude, Taken, Who I Am

  Janet Jackson, David Ritz (2011). “True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Football, Pockets, Breaking Down

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• Something will break very bad.

  Marc Faber

  "Master of doom Marc Faber is feeling gloomy about Canada" by Darcy Keith, www.theglobeandmail.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

  Roshon Fegan

  People, Hip Hop, Hips

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• When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

  Arnon Goldfinger

  Country, War, Thinking

  Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Heart, Strings Attached

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

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• Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  School, Men, Thinking

  "Breaking through the brass ceiling" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

  Peter York

  Real, People, World

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

  Black Francis

  People, Style, Musician

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.

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• I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

  Stephen Daldry

  Bored, Needs, Three

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• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

  John Walker Lindh

  Military, Sin, Contracts

  "Walker: Prison uprising was 'a mistake'". www.cnn.com. December 20, 2001.

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• Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Nice, Writing, Isolation

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Break Through

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• Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

  James M. Barrie

  Caring, China, Plates

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• To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Covenant, Salt, Bread

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1826, e-artnow

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• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Hard Work, Kitchen

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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• With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Generosity

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]

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• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Break Through, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Real, Space

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Habit

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• Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

  James Hunter

  Self, Joy, Servant Leadership

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• I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.

  Laura Joplin

  Art, Strong, Thinking

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