Busted Quotes - Page 2

• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

  Glen Duncan

  Sticks, Spontaneous, Strategy

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

  Peggy Noonan

  Shoes, Rivers, Floating

  "Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton". www.wsj.com. November 30, 2007.

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• Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

  Mickey Rourke

  Careers, Ends, Wrestler

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

  Mike Carey

  Kids, Dark, Night

  "All His Engines". Graphic novel by Mike Carey, January 2005.

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• Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

  Robert James Thomson

  Tears, Gone, Down And

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

  Dick Cavett

  Feel Good, Brain, Authority

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week.

  Doug Stanhope

  Boiler Room, Stuff, Rooms

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• President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

  Jay Leno

  Children, School, Kids

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• There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Robots, Gadgets, Building

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

  Dorothy Parker

  Being Thankful, Sitting Down, World

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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• Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we've all been busted on driving, and riding.

  Colin Firth

  Taken, Thinking, Perfectly Normal

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.

  Diablo Cody

  Mom, Hipster, Car

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• I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that.

  Kami Garcia

  Links, Wrecks, Sometimes

  "Beautiful Darkness (Beautiful Creatures)". Book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, October 12, 2010.

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• We’ve been secretly datin’ since last week.” He gives me a smile and a look that says I’m his one-and-only. That smile might deceive Madison, but I know he’s full of it. “Isn’t that right, K.?” He squeezes me tighter. “Uh-huh,” I squeak out. Madison shakes her head fast, as if she can’t believe what she’s hearing. “Nobody in their right mind chooses Kiara Westford over me.” She’s right. We’re busted. “Wanna bet?” My eyes go wide when Carlos bends his head down to me. “Kiss me, cariño.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Eye, Kissing

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• (Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

  Simone Elkeles

  Bleeding, Faces, Stills

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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• They done Wrong Like ink from a busted pen Thrown away 'cause of someone else Used up But he come back Dressed in night Fine as a king With his queen The wrong Made right So right.

  P. C. Cast

  Kings, Queens, Night

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.

  Lisa McMann

  Drug, Captains, Pot

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• When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Oil, Doe

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone.

  Maureen Johnson

  Animal, Doors, Hands

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• You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

  John Green

  Girl, Philosophical

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Penguin

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

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Taken, Gone, Broke

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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• He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Witty, Self, Rose

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• We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

  Paullina Simons

  Live Your Life, Hardest, Harder

  Paullina Simons (2011). “The Summer Garden: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• I've busted a million Europeans

  Phil Hellmuth

  Millions

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