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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
- Extrapolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
- Drape
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don't want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
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- Nov 07, 2020