Losing Quotes - Page 13

• The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

  Marina Abramovic

  Spiritual, Needs, Our Society

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• We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Different, Needs

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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  In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Dark, Journey

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press

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• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  Ted Allen

  Dog, Crazy, Thinking

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

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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  Karen Armstrong

  Afterlife, Ego, Not Interested

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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• It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Exercise, Feminine, Gamble

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• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Kids, Artist, Winning

  Jean Michel Basquiat, Rudy Chiappini (2005). “Basquiat”, Museo D'Arte Moderna Citta Di Lugano

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• We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Losing Someone, Despair, Desire

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

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• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Loss, Simple, Weight

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• Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Jealous, Reality, Lost

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mistake, Passion, Sight

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• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  Elayne Boosler

  Real, Choices, Risk

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by By Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

  Norman Borlaug

  War, Team, Humble

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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Respect, Self

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.

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• I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

  Chris Brown

  Girl, Song, Maturity

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• Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

  James Buchan

  Real, Humiliation, Trousers

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• I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

  Sandra Bullock

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

  Steve Buscemi

  Losing Control, Talking, Tree

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Likes, Election

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", www.cnn.com. April 17, 2018.

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• And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

  Nicolas Cage

  Movie, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 17, 2004.

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• People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

  Nicolas Cage

  Jobs, Children, People

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