Records Breaking Quotes

• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?

  Meredith Vieira

  Running, New York, Thinking

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• We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision

  Velcrow Ripper

  Vision, Records, Crisis

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• To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Sound, Events, Ends

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• Rob McElhenney who runs 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' That show absolutely kills me and I am stunned by the consistency of greatness it has maintained over what is now a record breaking amount of seasons ... How do you do that for so many years? My 14-year-old daughter and I watch it together and we both laugh crazy hard.

  Louis C. K.

  Running, Daughter, Crazy

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• Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

  Eddy Cue

  People, Albums, Six

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• I don't feel so good." Lula said. And she farted. She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long fart. "Excuse me." she said. I was horrified and impressed all at the same time. It was a record breaking fart. On my best day, I couldn't come near to farting like that.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eye, Long, Excuse

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Race, Mcdonalds

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• The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

  Christiana Figueres

  Business, Weather, Waiting

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• BlogHer would not exist...if we hadn't made a commitment that the only way to work with women in an entirely new record-breaking technological environment was to listen as hard as we could and try to deliver services that they might be interested in.

  Lisa Stone

  Commitment, Trying, Might

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• During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

  Bernie Sanders

  Opportunity, Agreement, President

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