Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Al Jarreau These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Atom Egoyan These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Charles Dickens They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bobby Seale They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ben Jonson They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Callimachus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
    They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
    I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
    Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
    Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Bryan Robson They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Bret Harte They were left in the lurch For want of more wadding — He ran to the church — ... With his arms full of hymnbooks... Rang his voice, Put Watts into 'em — Boys, give 'em Watts.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Lester Bangs They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Brenda Ueland Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Barbara Jordan Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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