Losing Quotes - Page 15

• For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Passion, Men, Personality

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• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  Gary Gygax

  Character, Winning, Games

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Long, Parent

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• I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Listening, Theatre, Shuffling

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Losing Control, World, Disorder

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• I'm terrified of losing my voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Voice, Terrified

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• The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Home, Cities, Penalties

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nursing, Creative, Sitting

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• It's the good loser who finally loses out.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Loser, Loses

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  Laura Ingraham

  Mean, Guy, Complaining

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• I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Selfish, Gentleman

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• What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Winning, Work Out, May

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• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  Waylon Jennings

  Death, Loss, Tragedy

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Reflection, Mirrors

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• People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Believe, Trust No One, Government

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• When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Children, Nice, Facts

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Health

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disappointment, Winning, Expectations

  "The joys of losing". Column, jewishworldreview.com. April 23, 2010.

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• It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Mind, Fiction

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Teamwork, Kids

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  Jerry Lewis

  Winning, Gambling, Fortune

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