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Trouble Quotes
Words on courting trouble, dodging it, and living with the fallout.
This page gathers quotes on getting into trouble as a kid growing up in a tough neighborhood, the modern risk of oversharing on social media, and even a writer's fear of falling behind at the keyboard.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
- Elephant
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I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kevin Johnson is the kind of guy that gives guys trouble. He gives a lot of guys trouble. He gave Vitali Klitschko trouble.
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- Nov 07, 2020