Lost Quotes - Page 31

• My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mother, Stars, Mean

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• Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Trying, Actresses, Betting

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

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• I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Real, Track

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• I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

  Frank Lampard

  Couple, Years, Goal

  "Frank Lampard determined to stay after breaking Chelsea goal record" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Self, Agendas

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

  Avril Lavigne

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

  Curtis LeMay

  War, Criminals, Killing

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• Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

  Denis Leary

  Real, Grief, Firefighter

  "'Rescue Me': A Final (Quite Funny) Conversation". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Special, Life Is

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• Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Support

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• Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Years, Numbers

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• So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, People, House

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• I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

  Jeremy Lin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 18, 2012.

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• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Thinking, Should

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  Eric Liu

  America, Worry, Six

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• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Art, People, Form

  "Q&A Baz Luhrmann interview". www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

  Paul Lynde

  Would Be, Half, Comedy

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• Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

  Harvey Mackay

  Art, Mean, Humility

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• With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Media, Play

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Identity, Adults, Married

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• When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Writing, Track

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

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