quotes about Breaking Down
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Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
-- Ben Nicholson -
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Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
-- Brian SelznickSource : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.375, Scholastic Inc.
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
-- Charles Dickens -
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
-- Charlie Bewley -
Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.
-- Charlie Nicholas -
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Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
-- Clare Balding -
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
-- Dean Karnazes -
The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
-- Eban Goodstein -
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
-- Eleanor Clift -
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When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.
-- Elizabeth LesserSource : "Interview with Author & Visionary – Elizabeth Lesser". Interview with Kelly McNelis Senegor, womenforone.com. January 21, 2013.
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When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
-- Fran Tarkenton -
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.
-- Jaejoong -
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The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
-- Jerry Brown -
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
-- Jimmy WalesSource : "Know It All" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.
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Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.
-- John Townsend -
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
-- Julian JaynesSource : Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
-- Jürgen Moltmann -
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
-- Lauren Bacall -
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
-- Leon Uris -
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
-- Lucy HaleSource : Song: Road Between, Album: Road Between, 2014
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... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse -
That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.
-- Matt Preston -
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
-- Nelson Mandela -
A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.
-- Park Gye-Ok -
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The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
-- Reinhold Schneider -
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
-- Rick Moody -
At some point, Moore's law will break down.
-- Seth LloydSource : Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.157, Random House
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Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
-- Shiv Khera -
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
-- Theodore KaczynskiSource : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
-- W. Averell Harriman -
If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!
-- Yoshiki Nakamura -
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When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.
-- Amy Hill HearthSource : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.154, Kodansha America
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Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.
-- Andy Dalton -
If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.
-- Avi LewisSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
-- Edward Brooke -
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.
-- Gary David -
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.
-- Kim HyesoonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.
-- Taraka Larson -
If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.
-- Zicheng Hong -
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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
-- Alan BersinSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.
-- Megan Martha WhiteSource : "White Stripes For Coffee And Cigarettes". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. May 9, 2004.
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Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.
-- J. B. Smoove -
I can make things happen when plays break down.
-- Vince Young -