- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bubble Quotes
Bright, fragile, and quick to fade.
This collection likens fame and fortune to a bubble, dazzling but fleeting, alongside honest reflections on growing up sheltered from the wider world. Related themes continue in our Burst collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
- Bloated
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
A token like ethereum has gone up 10 times faster than bitcoin, and it's fueling an ICO bubble no different then the dot-com IPOs of the late '90s.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was known for his barbecues at weekends and bubble and squeak on Sundays. We'd all have to set the table and clear the table. We had our own seats, totally structured.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Fed is omniscient, why didn't they pull back on the excess money supply that inflated the massive housing bubble that popped so disastrously back in 2008?
- Feed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020