Quotes with broke

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  • Henry Louis Mencken Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Pearl S. Buck There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Alvin Toffler To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ang Lee Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alan Paton What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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