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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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
Saku Koivu -
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.
Dan Marino -
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Walter Reuther
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
Usain Bolt -
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Hannah Murray -
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.
Natasha Lyonne -
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Zedong
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle -
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.
Nadine Velazquez -
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.
Kate Reardon -
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson -
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
Edith Piaf
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I think what really made me relax more was I wasn't fighting for a spot on the roster. It was my spot in the rotation to lose. If I would have done what I've done in my first two starts though, I wouldn't have been in the rotation.
Joe Mays -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
It's not important to me that people understand me.
Kate Bush -
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You are that what you cannot lose.
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