Gerrit Komrij Quotes
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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You are that what you cannot lose.
