Broke Quotes - Page 38

• All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

  French Montana

  Rapper, Lyrical, Knows

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• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  Ashley Kahn

  New York, Cool Jazz, California

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• Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

  Berry Gordy

  Artist, Generations, Bars

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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Wall, Principles, African Music

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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• After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Exercise, Guitar, Years

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• Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Taken, Mean

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.

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• My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

  Richard Hammond

  Brother, Heart, Car

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

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sex, Pain

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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• Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Sleep is for those people who are broke.

  Curtis Jackson

  Sleep, People

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

  Curtis Jackson

  Dream, Sleep, Opportunity

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• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  Kreayshawn

  Song, Thinking, People

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• At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Mistake, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1882). “Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel”

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• The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

  Curtis Jackson

  Jail, Excuse, Being Broke

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• My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Dollars, Tables

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Long

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Father, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rewards, Settling, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• Sleep is for those who are broke

  Curtis Jackson

  Sleep

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• My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Car, Ankles

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• I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

  Diane Guerrero

  Government, Bed, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather be tired than broke!

  Mark Cuban

  Tired

  "Caught on Camera: Actors, Politicians Fall Asleep on the Job". abcnews.go.com.

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• Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

  Dick Gregory

  Mind, Poverty, Poor

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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