Breaking Down Quotes - Page 5

• Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Wall, World, Comedy

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.206, Penguin

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• The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fear, Voice, Challenges

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and amoral philosophies that were so prevalent in the 1960s and '70s, the rebellion of young people, which brought about the drug epidemic in so many to break down the family. Particularly during this decade, the spiritual rebirth. I'm an evangelical, and I've watched the evangelical church here and around the world preaching Christ, the death, burial, resurrection of the savior, receiving more receptivity everywhere, and that growth.

  Jerry Falwell

  Spiritual, Philosophy, People

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• The most important lesson of all: Go home. Make time for the ones you love. The easiest thing to think about living like an entrepreneur is that these skills apply to only one part of your life: your job. That's a mistake. In the same way that entrepreneurs are redefining many of the traditional rules of the workplace, they're also helping to break down one of the most stubborn boundaries of all, the one between work and family. While it's popular to say you can have either a successful career or a meaningful personal life, I'd like to suggest you can aim for both.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Meaningful, Mistake, Home

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.

  Kelly Knox

  Ignorance, People, Different

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Thinking, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

  Alan Cumming

  Drama, Film, Imagine

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• For years, more women were steered toward the studio or toward being a reporter. If that's what you want to do and that's what you love - by all means, go do it. That's OK to be ambitious and do things that are out of the norm if that's the route you want to take. We're already seeing women breaking down those barriers in what was once male-dominated. There are opportunities for women to fill those roles.

  Beth Mowins

  Mean, Opportunity, Ambitious

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy, and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There.

  John Green

  Girl, Wall, Fun

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Simple, Doctors, Views

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.

  Oliver Stone

  Dad, Father, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clothes, Luck, Watches

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.80, Penguin

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• Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Life, Cat, Clouds

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

  Rod McKuen

  World, Break, Ifs

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• Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Mean, Escaping

  "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Play, Cry

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• I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, People, Politician

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

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Prejudice, Done, Unions

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

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• In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

  David Icke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

  Clara Hughes

  Baby, Stories, Tiny

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• No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

  Colin Hanks

  School, People, Doe

  "Colin Hanks gets 'Lucky' with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

  Snoop Dogg

  Country, Cds, Games

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

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• For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, College, Down And

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• I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

  Tom Colicchio

  Jobs, Skills, Years

  "Tom Colicchio: The ESQ + A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 26, 2011.

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