Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Barbara Kruger Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Robert Orben Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Lou Gerstner Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
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  • Angelina Grimke We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Calvin Trillin We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Beth Ditto We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Betty Dodson We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Anna Freud We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Carine Roitfeld We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alexander Maclaren We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bill Walton We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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