Lost Quotes - Page 28

• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Battle, Acknowledge

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• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  Joshua Foer

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Trying, Mold

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• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  Harrison Ford

  Caring, Thinking, Action

  "Harrison Ford criticises 'soulless' action films". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

  Ron Fournier

  Leadership, Approval Rating, Congress

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

  Michael J. Fox

  I Can, Loses, Havens

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• As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

  Thomas Frank

  Country, America, Care

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, People, Bipolar

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• Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Agency, Giving

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• The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

  Dawn French

  Weight, Body, Know How

  "Super size me". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

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• I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Games

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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Lost Love, Divorce

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2010). “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Lasts, Looks

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990.

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• I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Pages Turning, Ideas

  Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

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• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  Adolf Galland

  Pilots, Firsts, Flight

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• I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Men, Play

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

  Judy Garland

  Children, Strange, Illusion

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

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• Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, Black

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Battle, France

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• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  David Geffen

  Apathy, Hiv, Growing

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• My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

  Frank Gehry

  Father, Mean, Kitchen

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2012.

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• It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

  Steven Gerrard

  Cousin, Knowing, Difficult

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

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• The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Power, Principles, Constitution

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3

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• Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

  Marla Gibbs

  Mind, Scripts, Dave

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 24, 2012.

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