Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 3899.

  • Vince Lombardi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Gross It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Claude M. Bristol It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Alexander Theroux It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Carol Bartz It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Billy Corgan James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Lennon Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Carter Burwell John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Bill Richardson John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.
    at 2008 Democratic National Convention
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield Jordan tattoos the words forgive me in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.
    Poetry Human the Death Dance
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Jean Paul Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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