Ruined Quotes - Page 8

• The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

  Davy Jones

  Careers, Acting, Changed

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• It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

  Angelo Dundee

  Boxing, Forever, Muhammad

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy

  'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

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• I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

  Rick Yune

  Years, Nuts, Ties

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

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• Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

  Larry David

  Interesting, Mustache

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

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

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• My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Actresses, My Sister, Family Life

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• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

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• I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

  Karen Black

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Real, Ironic

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• It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Forever, Shows

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• What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, What If

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• Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Years, Medical Bills, Safe

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• Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

  Pete Yorn

  Girl, Stories, Cigarette

  Song: Strange Condition, Album: Musicforthemorningafter

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Neutrality, Arms

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.108, Penguin

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• The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Time, Real, Adversity

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Girl, Boys, Maturity

  "The Harlem Ghetto" by James A. Baldwin in "Commentary", February 1948, republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son", 1955.

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• I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Suffering And Death, Essentials, Facts

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Wind

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• For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, House, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.365

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• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

  Constance Naden

  Wisdom, Rain, Heart

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