Broke Quotes - Page 16

• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

  Shia LaBeouf

  My Friends

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• When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

  Queen Latifah

  Reading, Rapper, People

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

  Ang Lee

  Fighting, Thinking, Hands

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

  Damian Lewis

  Kids, Mouths, Balls

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, President, Care

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• When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

  Paul Lynde

  People, Annoyed, Dollars

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• You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

  Bernie Mac

  Night, Breakfast Food, Nine

  Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Mirrors, Hands, Pieces

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

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• Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

  Thomas Mann

  Levels, Miserable, Hysterical

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.317, A&C Black

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• I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

  Marlee Matlin

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• We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

  John McCain

  Years, People, Starting Over

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2010.

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• It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Girl, Fire

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

  Shay Mitchell

  School, Long, Dating

  "Exclusive Shay Mitchell Interview" by Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Thinking, Rays

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• You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Vaccines, May, Rich

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• In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

  Sean Penn

  Actors, Paid, Seems

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• I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Thinking, Australia, Ribs

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

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• My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

  Steven Pinker

  Order, Police, Tests

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!

  Nicole Polizzi

  Cat, Rocks, Skins

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• They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

  Elvis Presley

  Television, Whole

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