Quotes with pre-bankruptcy

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  • Joey Adams Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • Ronald Reagan Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Daniel S. Loeb As a friend said to me, ‘Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.’
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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  • Arlen Specter As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Eric Hoffer Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Simon Gray Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
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  • Barbara Mikulski Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Woody Allen His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Buzz Osborne I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Anne Perry I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Diamond In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Ben Hecht In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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