Loser Quotes - Page 27

• At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Battle, Band, Audience

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• Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Race, Literature

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sweet, Lonely, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm the sort of loser who succeeds really well and then drops a turd in the punch bowl.

  Christopher Titus

  Succeed, Turds, Wells

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

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• This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was built on shame, humiliation and striving to be better. By the way, if you're in this room right now and you're successful... you didn't get there because someone loved you too much or gave you too many hugs or you got a trophy when you lost. You did it because at one point in your life, somebody turned to you and said you're a loser, and in that second, you decided to bust your ass to make them choke on that sentence... Or, your parents gave you the money.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Successful, Parent

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

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• Losing builds character. So, if you're the loser in your family, don't worry. 'Cos twenty years form now, that perfect can do no wrong brother of yours is going to show up at your house, bald, fat, divorced, with six kids who all hate him and he's going to ask you for money. And because of your character, you're going to look him right in the eyes and you're going to say, You know what, I'll give you some money. If you mow my lawn and detail my car. Oh yeah, then you can shampoo the tail. Loser.

  Christopher Titus

  Brother, Hate, Character

  "Titus / Shannon's Song". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.

  Christopher Titus

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "Titus / Shannon's Song"". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Mother, Guy

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

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• In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

  Christopher Titus

  Party, Mean, Cake

  "Titus / The Surprise Party". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Dark, Perspective, Negative

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

  Jud Wilhite

  Pain, Struggle, Yuppies

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• I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.

  Michael Hudson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.

  David Frum

  Exercise, Winning, Upset

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, President, Winner

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

  Alison Sweeney

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gratitude, Generosity, Guilt

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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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• We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Winner, Economy

  "Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America". "The Wall Street Journal", September 9, 2012.

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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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• Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Spiritual, Winner

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• It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

  Ricky Gervais

  Play, Fats

  "Gervais To Play Flanimal" By Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about being on the beach and he threw a Frisbee and it hit a lady in the head. His immediate reaction was to turn and he found a kid next to him and pointed to the kid, it's those kinds of moments. I was really impressed with the volume of fun stories we got to play with. No one was a loser in this game; they were all winners .

  Danny Pudi

  Beach, Fun, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Drunk, Argument

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• No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

  Lady Gaga

  Names, Numbers, People

  "Lady Gaga interview". Interview with Peter Robinson, www.timeout.com.

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• The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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