Loses Quotes - Page 28

• Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

  Henry Rollins

  Sex, Thinking, Years

  "Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. December 20, 2012.

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• When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

  Henry Rollins

  Scary, Community, Looks

  "A 60 Second Commencement Address" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving Up, America, Advice

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• As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

  Henry Rollins

  Children, Class, Parent

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• If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Believe, Would Be, Refuse

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• He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, Suffering, Surfer

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• We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

  Charles Rangel

  Color, Black, Democracy

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• Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.

  Benjamin Spock

  Organization, America, Political

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• Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

  James Bovard

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

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• To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

  Harpo Marx

  Way, Lost, Irreplaceable

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.432, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

  Michael Arrington

  Country, Moving, Mean

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• I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Magazines, Too Much

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• The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

  Winston Churchill

  Queens, Winning, Battle

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

  Bob Hope

  Good Friend, Weight Loss, Dieting

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• 55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Week, Remote Control

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• We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

  Bill Cosby

  Boys, Old Neighborhood, Pulse

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Real, Fables

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• If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Phones, Numbers

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• I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

  Bette Davis

  Winning, Missing, Done

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

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• Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

  Henri Matisse

  Photography, Artist, World

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.

  Paula Poundstone

  Mother, Struggle, Dark

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• Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Debate, Let Me

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• In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.

  Richard Jeni

  Sex, Sleep, Winning

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