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Tag Name "Broke" (691)

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We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
Heather O'Neill
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.
Barry S. Strauss
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
Brian Eno
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Worldly riches are like nuts many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Nachman of Breslov
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I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.
Okky Madasari
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The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
Paul Theroux
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Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
Gordon Strachan
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I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.
Rachel Caine
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After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's what you get,' I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again.
Jayson Werth
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
Scott Adams
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When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.
Dave Dravecky
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It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.
Tim Blixseth
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He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.
Roy Jones Jr.
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She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.
Chris Rock
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Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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So the political choice today is much like the 1930s, when the global economy also broke down. The choice is between nationalism and populism on the right, or socialism reviving what used to be left-wing politics.
Michael Hudson
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I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
Mark Nepo
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So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . . He shook his head. You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.
J. K. Rowling
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.
Dan Savage
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Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.
Rainbow Rowell
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A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job. That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.
Jeff Raz
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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
Cornelia Funke
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