Damaged Goods Quotes

• You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

  James Mattis

  Military, War, Broken

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• The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Positive Attitude, Light

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 19, 2013

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• We are all damaged goods in recovery.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Recovery, Goods

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• Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

  Brad Mehldau

  Music, Jazz, Nostalgia

  "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.

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• Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

  Paul Quarrington

  Two, People, Together

  Paul Quarrington (2011). “The Spirit Cabinet”, p.410, Vintage Canada

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• You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

  James Mattis

  Veterans Day, Determination, Skills

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• Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.

  Nalini Singh

  Healing, Said, Goods

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.220, Penguin

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• Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

  Joey Comeau

  Sex, Regret, Princess

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• I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Perception, News, Way

  Mika Brzezinski (2011). “All Things at Once”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

  Johnny Depp

  Mad, Perspective, Personality

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