- Power
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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
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020