Breaking Down Quotes - Page 15

• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

  Rick Moody

  Taxonomy, Way, Categorization

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• I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

  Thom Yorke

  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Down And

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Men, Down And

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

  Lucy Hale

  Writing, Stories, Stills

  Song: Road Between, Album: Road Between, 2014

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• When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Body

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline NBC", www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

  Man Ray

  Cameras, Use, Size

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• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  Rachael Harris

  Character, Ideas, Scripts

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2012.

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• If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

  Charles Darwin

  Theory Of Evolution, Creation Science, Evolution Of Man

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.213, Broadview Press

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Air, Blue

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror”, p.230, Del Rey

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• The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

  Reinhold Schneider

  Prayer, Break, Certainty

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• The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

  Jerry Brown

  Population, Strategy, Crime

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

  John Dewey

  Spring, War, Class

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Energy

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• I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

  Mika

  Song, Thinking, Matter

  "Mika: In Pursuit Of Pure Pop". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 24, 2009.

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• I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate.

  Lil B

  Hate, Building Up, World And Love

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Psychics, Physics, Hypothesis

  "Essays in Biography" by John Maynard Keynes, (p. 286), 1933.

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• If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Sex, Sorry

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

  Charles Simeon

  Eye, Long, Holiness

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• The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Real, Technology

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• So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Important, Helping, Conservative

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• We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, White, America

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

  GG Allin

  Rocks, Law, Trying

  "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies". Documentary, Biography, Music, 1993.

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• Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Ambition, Doors

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.76, Broadway Books

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