Broke Quotes - Page 2

• You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

  Jay Leno

  School, Interesting, Conservative

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• President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Track, Guy, Secret

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• I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.

  Sandra Bullock

  Sunshine, Clouds, Thongs

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.

  William Poundstone

  Risk, Return, Strategy

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.69, Macmillan

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• The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

  Mark Tobey

  Used, Figures

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by W.C. Seitz, p.58, In conversation with Seitz, 1983.

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• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The first day we did a scene together I came down the stairs and my mom pointed that finger at me: "Don't you dare talk to that boy again!" You know, I've seen that finger for 23 years. And I started laughing, she started laughing, then the whole crew broke up - in that moment, they all knew that she and I had been there before.

  Laura Dern

  Mom, Heart, Boys

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• I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

  Michael Steger

  Character, Acting, Montana

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• I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Four, Impression

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• I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Cities, Homeless, Antioch

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “To Have Taken The Trouble”

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• I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

  Carmen Boullosa

  Angel, Wings, Desert

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• He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
  Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
  Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
  In spite of fools consulted seriously.

  Robert Pollok

  Freedom, Soul, Fool

  Robert Pollok (1833). “The Course of Time, a Poem: With a Memoir of the Author, an Introductory Notice, a Copious Index, and an Analysis Prefixed to Each Book”, p.74

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• Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" — which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.

  Rick Remender

  Book, Character, Dark

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• Being broke is against my religion.

  Curtis Jackson

  Being Broke

  "Song: "Ryder Music" ("The Massacre")". 2005.

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Hell

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

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• Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

  Carolyn Wells

  Wall, Abode, Streets

  Carolyn Wells (1913). “Pleasing Prose”

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• some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Sheep, People, Religion

  Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books

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• There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

  George Eliot

  Glasses, Hands, Bird

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions

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• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said 'six? That's not enough experience to be governor.'

  Conan O'Brien

  President, Today, Six

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• In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Men, Records

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• Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts

  Fabolous

  Roots, Evil, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

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• My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio.

  Kent Hovind

  Moon, Impact, Cameras

  "Creation Evolution and Dinosaurs session #5 Q&A". January 2002.

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