Loser Quotes - Page 26

• One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  John Paul Stevens

  Years, Law, Judging

  Bush v. Gore (dissenting opinion) (2000)

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• Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Opportunity, Order, Effort

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• I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.

  Halle Berry

  Doritos, Eating, Biggest Loser

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

  Sean Hannity

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Together

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

  Karin Fossum

  Lying, Heart, Successful

  "Murder, they wrote" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  Adam Garcia

  Sunday, Trying, Watches

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• Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

  Bob Seger

  Beautiful, Fall, Reality

  Song: Beautiful Loser, Album: Beautiful Loser, 1975

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• I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

  Rod Stewart

  Reading, Hot, Three

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• Was he a doper or was he just a loser?

  Neil Young

  Explanation

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• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  Alexander Elder

  Business, Odds, Challenges

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

  Danny Huston

  Father, Eye, Quality

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• I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

  Mike Huckabee

  Thinking, People, Forget

  "Mr ‘Total Conservative’". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. March 3, 2009.

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• At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.

  Sharon Horgan

  Jobs, Media, Degrees

  "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Wisdom, Buddhism

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• One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Way

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• One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

  Rick Santelli

  Clients, Winner, Wells

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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

  Bill Gates

  School, Winning, Done

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• It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

  Mike Farrell

  Games, Trying

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Flaws, Contradiction

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Clinton, Feels

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• In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Peace, War

  Let Us Continue, delivered 27 November 1963

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• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Harry Caray

  Sports, Games, Knows

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• In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Business Deals, Games

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.

  Russell Sherman

  Crush, Horse, Artist

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