- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lose Quotes
On defeat, restraint, and what slips away.
This set covers losing in several senses: standing by a cause even in defeat, losing enjoyment by over-thinking something, and losing composure under pressure. The tension between winning and losing shows up again in our Game quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Build-Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.
- Discriminating
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
- Nov 07, 2020
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make some very bad decisions.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020