Broken Quotes
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)
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I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.
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I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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To get to play a man that has broken walls, that's broken barriers, that's an honor.
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I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
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The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
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I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay.
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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
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The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.
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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
