Broke Quotes - Page 14

• An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

  Chris Rock

  People, Giving, Rest Of Your Life

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

  Chris Rock

  People, Rich, Mets

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2002.

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• Somebody broke into my house once, this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe i lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Real, Nice

  "Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone."

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Cancer, Kids

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.

  William Ernest Henley

  Karma, Christian, Kings

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• I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

  Marc Cherry

  Mother, Proud, Pay

  Source: deadline.com

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• The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Children

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• I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

  Okky Madasari

  Essentials, Laptops, Firsts

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

  Ryan White

  Blood, Week, Injection

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• About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'

  John Wesley

  Morning, Prayer, Voice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works...”, p.117

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• I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

  Ben Folds

  Pain, White, Gigs

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

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• You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.

  Steven Wright

  Fighting, Hockey, Games

  "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2006.

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• I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Trying

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• I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kings, Echoes, Parent

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". Interview with MovieWeb, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Thinking, Rays

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• If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dimes, Ifs

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• I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, My Boyfriend, Upset

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• Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Thinking, Worry

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• You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.

  Angie Sage

  Hands, Space, Giving

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• The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fire, Clouds, Sunrise

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• So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

  Graham Greene

  Discipline, Long, Unhappiness

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

  John Green

  Thinking, Strings, Said

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.436, Penguin

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