Breaking Things Quotes

• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Moving, Entrepreneur

  "Mark Zuckerberg On Innovation". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Move fast and break things.

  Ben Barry

  Moving, Entrepreneur, Social Media

  "Facebook’s Analog Research Lab: The Slogan Factory Where Techies Get Tactile" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Life, Tired, Trying

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• Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Rescue

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.255, Penguin

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• Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

  Hiro Mashima

  Tails, Fairy, Specialty

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• Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

  Matt Schlapp

  Ideas

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Games, Play, Heaven

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• I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

  David Byrne

  Lists, Categories

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• If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

  Jeremy Piven

  Dark, Giving, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

  Guy Maddin

  Narrative, Bones

  Source: collider.com

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• I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

  Travis Barker

  Trying, Legs, Able

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