Broken Down Quotes - Page 4

• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  Bill Gates

  Broken, Income, Care

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• Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Communication, School, Intelligent

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

  Moby

  Broken, Shells, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Broken, Cheerleader

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.

  John Petrucci

  Rocks, Broken, Voting

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.

  Josh Groban

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  "Josh Groban and Denée Benton are Broadway bound". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

  Charles Williams

  Forgiveness, Party, Broken

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• So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, I Love Him, Sight

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

  Matthew Lillard

  Thinking, People, Broken

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

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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Nice, Thinking

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• Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

  Raymond Chandler

  God, Writing, Eye

  Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) ch. 7

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• Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, People, Broken

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Party, Broken

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• And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

  Assata Shakur

  Wall, Broken, Knows

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Dream, Broken

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.

  Richard Bausch

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

  Jean-Marc Ayrault

  Running, Wall, Broken

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• I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.

  Jeremy Camp

  Broken, Alive, Treasure

  Song: Beyond Measure, Album: Beyond Measure, 2006

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• The more you walk in relationship with the Lord, the more you learn to trust him. I'm learning not to focus so much on the issues I think are so big right now-our bus has broken down, or someone said something that frustrated me. I'm learning to slowly let things roll off my back, to say, 'Hey, God knew about this before it happened and He's got a way out or a plan better than mine.' I've learned to stop freaking out and just trust that God knows what he's doing. He's not going to leave me in a bad place because He never has before.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Thinking, Issues, Broken

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• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Discovery, Two, Broken

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• The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
  fear and love.
  Love is of the soul.
  Fear is of the personality.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Fear, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Sep 26, 2016

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• Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  People, Broken, Eating Disorder

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix. I don't really understand, when we have so much conversation about the barriers being broken down, how you can have one side of the store and the other side of the store, and men's wear is cheaper.

  Hari Nef

  Men, Broken, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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