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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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The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
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Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
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You are that what you cannot lose.
