Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major."
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Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition."
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
Cesar Romero
Actor
"The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it."
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break."
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"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."
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"As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises."
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"Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords."
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"Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?"
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"You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs."
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"A stout heart breaks bad luck."
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"You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you."
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"Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom."
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"The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them."
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"Break the chains in our brains that make us fear."
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"You could love me or hate me I swear it won't make me or break me. I'm goin where ever the money takes me."
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"I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away."
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"You can’t break me because you didn’t make me."
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"When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break."
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"Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves."
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"I don't take breaks, I just break records"
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"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."
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"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run"
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"Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why"
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"Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die."
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