Broken Quotes - Page 25

• Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

  Jude Law

  Looks, Stories, Untrue

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• Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.

  Adi Shankara

  Self, Space, Form

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• Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Heart, Hardened

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• If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

  Seth Godin

  Play, Trying, Doe

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• Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupidity, Trying, Objects

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• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Compassion, Ideas, Okay

  "15 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne" by Jon Steely, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.

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• You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

  LeCrae

  Made, Whole

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• Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Heart, Sometimes, Persons

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

  Bear Grylls

  Snakes, Cameras, Heavy

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• I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

  Denise Levertov

  Believe, Space, Essentials

  Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Judgment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

  James Purdy

  Journalist, Broken Down, Alcoholics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

  Mark Pellegrino

  People, Use, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

  John Hurt

  Sports, Noses, Littles

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• Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Eggs, Mao, Despite

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• Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

  Richard Brookhiser

  Soul, Half, Tasks

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• For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

  Marian Keyes

  Hands, Knowing, Size

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• Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Night, Yesterday

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• If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Husband, Men

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Tears, Fingers, Breaths

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.25, SCB Distributors

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• Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

  James Mangold

  Hurt, Mean, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

  Atul Gawande

  Successful, Next Week, Psychology

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