Breaking Promises Quotes - Page 4

• I like breaking the rules.

  Lexa Doig

  Promise

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• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  William Hurt

  Service Culture, Ideas, People

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• Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

  James Taylor

  Break Up, Responsible

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

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• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  Salma Hayek

  Break Up, Sexy, Character

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• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Progress, Machines

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• I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

  John F. Kennedy

  Broken Promises, Keeping Your Word, Precedent

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• If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Progress, Legs, Sometimes

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• My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

  Howard Stern

  People, Promise, Revolutionary

  "Howard Stern Enters the No Spin Zone!". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Night, Broken

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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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• Algeria is not breaking up.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Break Up, Algeria

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• All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

  Travis Barker

  Skateboarding, Half, Body

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• The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, Democracy, Aristocracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

  Adrienne Rich

  Rejection, Males, Heterosexuality

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

  Ken Kesey

  Giving, Energy

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• The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sea, Wave, Whole

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Break Up, Originality, Tradition

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