Break Quotes - Page 38

• Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

  Charles Simeon

  Eye, Long, Holiness

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• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  Donna Summer

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Buddhism

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• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Knows

  "Interview: Zack Snyder Talks Sucker Punch". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. March 24, 2011.

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• The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

  George Tenet

  People, Culture, Telling The Truth

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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• People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dad, Writing, Men

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• I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

  Scott Weiland

  Territory, Harder, Unfamiliar Territory

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• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

  Bede Jarrett

  Grief, Grieving, Sorrow

  Bede Jarrett (1945). “The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons”

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• When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Jesus, Light

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• I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

  NeNe Leakes

  Reality, Television, Doe

  "NeNe Leakes Opens Up On Reality Television Not Being Scripted", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

  Sarah Lacy

  Reality, Zuckerberg, World

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Knowing, People, Body

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

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• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  Jack McBrayer

  Night, Years, Three

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2007.

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• Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

  Louise Mensch

  Writing, Law, Serious

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• I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!

  Heather Morris

  School, High School, Serious

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• Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

  David Whyte

  Children, Heart, Parent

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

  Pharrell Williams

  Needs, Break Out, Minutes

  Interview with Mercedes La Rosa, uk.askmen.com.

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• In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

  Mark Zandi

  Giving, Stressed, Pay

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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

  Records Breaking, Sound, Events

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• I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.

  Nolan Gould

  Cities, Alabama, Kind

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• I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

  Meg Rosoff

  Magic, Banter, Turns

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