Lost Quotes - Page 27

• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Fire, Doubt

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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• I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Play, Annoying

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• I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Acting, Different

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• No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Couple, Home, Night

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• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Two, People

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• The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Team, Race, Together

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• The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Hollywood, Film

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• I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

  Umberto Eco

  Opinion

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• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Writing, Sadness

  "Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  Umberto Eco

  Player, Men, Skills

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Mortality, Young

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Impossible, Right Time, Colony

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Smile, Kindness, Commitment

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Jobs, War, Fall

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Yoga, Mean

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• Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Earthquakes

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Strong, Kids

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

  Craig Ferguson

  Interest, Shows

  "'Late Late Show' host Ferguson has comedy special" by Frazier Moore, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Careers, People

  "A chat with Will Ferrell". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2003.

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• When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

  Will Ferrell

  Morning, Adventure, Kids

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• Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  W. C. Fields

  Hope, Lost Everything, Comedy

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiring, Fear, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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