I learned that Yao Ming broke his navicular bone like five days before the 2009 draft. From that moment on, all I thought about was going from zero stars to one star. How do you do it?
The political system is broke. It doesn’t matter who the leader is if you are frozen in time and your hands are tied. Social media is so strong that minority groups get a huge say.
I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you’re on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it’s – I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it’s like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.
I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
Post-minimalism implies music that’s genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
I’ve never wrestled Kylie Rae, I’ve never wrestled Nyla Rose. I’m more familiar with Kylie Rae, I know her, she was my room-mate in Japan. I was in the match where she broke her collar bone in Japan, I was her tag partner.
Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you’re good at.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I’m a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.
I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
I almost went broke. I didn’t file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.
I’ve been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.
In 1958, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley broke countless hearts when he moved the team known as the Boys of Summer to Los Angeles – dumping the guts and grit of Ebbets Field for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
Of my own career, I have many happy memories, but perhaps it – the 2010/11 season, where United broke the record for number of title wins – was the best. I was very satisfied with my performance that year.
If you go into the old covenant, do you think that the Jewish people believe that you should be broke? They believe in wealth.
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was broke. I think I only had one guitar, a flametop green Jackson and I had these DC-10 Mesa Boogie heads. I think I had a cheap Shure wireless.
I broke my neck, it’s a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
The physical part was one thing. Whatever – I broke my face; that’ll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don’t know how to experience stuff like that. You don’t have any control over it, either. It’s just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through – like I had two knees.
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
I was three times AAU All-American World Champion and I had rough time. I was broke, no money and everything was bad for me until WWE.
The Seekers have done most things that you’d want to do and when we broke up in the ’60s it was partly because we sort of felt we’d done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.
There was a period in the Nineties when the BBC wanted to act as if it was a trendy Soho independent. They broke up all sorts of things and got people to work as freelancers who had previously been BBC employees. It corroded a sort of esprit de corps, I think.
I didn’t even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.
You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
One of my favorite paintings I’ve done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.
Let’s say I go completely broke, I’m about to star in the next ’30 for 30: Broke.’
We didn’t really feel poor. You don’t know that as a kid, but we really didn’t have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn’t have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.
So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that’s all I would ever be given.
Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn’t have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great.
I knew every one of my father’s lines in ‘Glory’ – I broke the VHS tape – but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
I wish I had millions in the bank; I’d never go broke. Let’s get that belt and get millions in the bank.
My mother became a big problem… She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was tough to get out.
With ‘Atonement,’ I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which ‘broke the camel’s back’ emotionally.
My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn’t have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.
You may be surprised to discover you’re rich, especially if you’re broke.
When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you’re up against strong competition.
I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam’s forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul – where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures – then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.
I’ve eaten part of my tooth. I had a weird cavity that broke apart in my teeth – this is a bad story. I was eating and thought, ‘It’s like I’m swallowing rocks,’ and then I checked and part of my tooth is missing. I ate it.
Trump needs to stick like glue to whomever writes his speeches and fire whomever told him Americans are up at night worried about the comfort and well-being of people who broke into our country illegally.
It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn’t. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don’t cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.
I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.
My son broke his arm. I couldn’t do anything, couldn’t be there. That’s when I knew I was a bad parent. I was doing the same thing my dad had done to me.
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
When I got hurt – I broke my back in a match in London, England – I had to retire and became just a commentator.
When I broke my arm at the Commonwealth Games three years ago, I was advised that my sporting career had likely reached its end.
I haven’t heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.
I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There’s something about me that I just don’t break on camera – maybe because I’m just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot – but I broke on ‘Sordid Lives,’ and I broke on ‘The Office.’ Those are the only two times in my life.
No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It’s your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn’t mean they bought the rest of your life.
