Breaking Down Quotes

• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

  John Lubbock

  People, Worry, Anxiety

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• ‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  John Dryden

  Death, Body, Spirit

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• It is so easy to break down and destroy.
  The heroes are those who make peace and
  build.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hero, Down And, Easy

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2017

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• All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Body

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

  Norman Jewison

  Men, Play, People

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• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  Nat King Cole

  Helping, Wonder, Well Known

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• Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Silence, Generations

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Silence, Preamble

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• Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

  Cat Stevens

  Wall, Silence, Mind

  Song: Changes IV, Album: Teaser and the Firecat, 1971

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Break

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  Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

  Brooke Shields

  Inspirational, Happy, Wise

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

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

  Ben Marcus

  Fiction, Complicated, Tricks

  "'A reading list is not my trophy case.' An Interview with Ben Marcus About His Syllabus". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides.

  Dan Hill

  Honesty, Passion, Eye

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• It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Stuff, Bliss

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.

  Peter Adamson

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  William Golding

  Latin, Communication, Fighting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
  The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
  The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
  Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
  By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?

  RZA

  Stars, Rap, Fighting

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