Damage Quotes - Page 22

• A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

  Charlie Hunnam

  People, Levels, Innocent

  "Hot Topic: Charlie Hunnam". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 10, 2012.

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• The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Immature, Environmental, Tissues

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• I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Psychics, Busy

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.219, Penguin

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• Celebrity damages private life.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Private Life

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, World, Inventor

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

  Marilyn Manson

  Damage Is Done, People, Needs

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• Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

  Kevin McCloud

  Planets, Humans, Breaths

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• No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Sun, Significant

  "Ghost in the Wires: The Kevin Mitnick Interview". Interview With Ken Hess, www.zdnet.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Want, Retiring

  "Master Of Creative Disruption". Interview with Logan Ward, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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• Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

  Grover Norquist

  Want, Small Business, Individual

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• I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

  George Osborne

  Damage Is Done, Parliament, Importance

  "George Osborne ordered to repay £1,666 in MPs' expenses" by Andrew Sparrow and Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

  Chris Pine

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  "INTERVIEW: Chris Pine Remains People Like Us". Interview with Ann Lieber, www.theatermania.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I wish i'd hurt him I didn't do any damage at all-Bella I can fix that-edward I was hoping you would say that-bella there was a slight pause "that doesn't sound like you what did he do"-edward he kissed me-bella all i heard on the other end of the line was the sound of an engine accelerating

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Wish, Sound

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• Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you." "Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before." "Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?" "On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Hurt, Thinking, Quiet

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.149, Macmillan

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• A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cat, Thinking, Voice

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• The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Brain, Teeth

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.121, Penguin

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• As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

  David Morrell

  Book, Writing, Rushing

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• It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Nice, Garden

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.

  Rachel Vail

  Baby, Hurt, Hands

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• It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

  Annie Dillard

  Difficult, Recalls

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

  Paul Cornell

  Thinking, Might, Too Much

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• If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

  Tom Robbins

  Cutting, Cells, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.313, Bantam

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• All Children Have Brain Damage!

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Brain

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• War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

  David Mitchell

  War, Winning, Auctions

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