Broke Quotes - Page 15

• Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Rehab, Wells, Stills

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• I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

  Drew Carey

  Girlfriend, Years, Car

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

  Jim Carrey

  School, Shells, Kind

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• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  J. Cole

  Jobs, Tired, College

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• When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

  Simon Cowell

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

  Michael Crawford

  Divorce, Different, Looks

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• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Hands, Elbows

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• My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

  Jimmy Dean

  Play, People, Benefits

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• It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

  Roger Ebert

  Film, Hell, Consequence

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• My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

  Brian Eno

  Cutting, Guitar, Play

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• We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

  Flavor Flav

  Long, Enemy, Alive

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• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

  Hayden Fry

  Looks, Fields, Winner

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• I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Squares, Subway, Pennies

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• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  Jennifer Garner

  Play, Television, Broadway

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Press conference, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

  Boy George

  House, London, Leisure

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• When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

  Dick Gregory

  Morning, Nbc, Evening

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• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  Bear Grylls

  Military, Fall, Months

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  Bear Grylls

  Army, Years, Soldier

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• I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

  Josh Hartnett

  Tv Shows, Car, Audi

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Stills, Frontiers

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• I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Taken, Gone, Busted

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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• I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

  Evel Knievel

  Lucky To Be Alive, Blood, Years

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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