Broke Quotes - Page 31

• My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

  Ray Davies

  Girlfriend, Art, Media

  Song: State of Confusion

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• If I was dead broke and had to feed my three children. I'd do anything.

  Yolanda Foster

  Children, Three, Ifs

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• I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules.

  Pleasant Rowland

  Life, Knows

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• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  Laura Kightlinger

  Next, Bits

  "Laura Kightlinger goes 'Minor' in a major way". www.today.com. August 1, 2006.

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• You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

  Justin Bieber

  Country, Baby, Home

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

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• Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

  Anne Robinson

  Couple, Together, Glue

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• The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.

  Larry Norman

  Needs, Broke Up, Said

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Bookstores, Serious

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• All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

  French Montana

  Rapper, Lyrical, Knows

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• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  Ashley Kahn

  New York, Cool Jazz, California

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• Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

  Berry Gordy

  Artist, Generations, Bars

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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Wall, Principles, African Music

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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• After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Exercise, Guitar, Years

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• Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Taken, Mean

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.

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• My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

  Richard Hammond

  Brother, Heart, Car

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

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sex, Pain

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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• Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Sleep is for those people who are broke.

  Curtis Jackson

  Sleep, People

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

  Curtis Jackson

  Dream, Sleep, Opportunity

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• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  Kreayshawn

  Song, Thinking, People

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• At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Mistake, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1882). “Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel”

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• The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

  Curtis Jackson

  Jail, Excuse, Being Broke

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• My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Dollars, Tables

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