Damaged Quotes

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp

Life, Success, Work

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen King

Home, Knew, Hospital

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
David Herbert Lawrence

Fear, Christian, Whole

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph

Big, Away, Guns

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. Rowling

Often, Meet, Defiance

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
Iain Duncan Smith

Life, Family, Positive

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
Helena Bonham Carter

Characters, Drawn, Unlock

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
Susan Boyle

Brain, Turn, Ability

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather

Girl, Fact, Emperor

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.
Haile Gebrselassie

Hard, Cannot, Body

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
George Saunders

Job, May, Artist

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
Tony Kushner

Good, Around, Criticism

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
Dominic Monaghan

Women, Home, Job

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
Vince Cable

Crisis, Personal, Debt

I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier.
Fergie

Hair, Makes, Found

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?
Mitch Daniels

Best, Balance, Economy

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.
Grover Norquist

Time, Down, Growth

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
Allen Klein

Strength, Financial, Trade

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Melissa Rosenberg

Character, Stress, Woman

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.
Liev Schreiber

Trying, Why, Sense

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.
Juliana Hatfield

Hope, Person, Give

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
Iggy Pop

Nice, Different, Become

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.
Mika Brzezinski

Perception, News, Months

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
Moshe Dayan

Heart, Secret, Effective

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.
Norman Reedus

Gravitate, Towards

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow

Money, Justice, Play

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
Scott Thompson

Saying, Person, Laugh

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Michael Fassbender

Him, Leaving, Place

People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne

Work, Freedom, Crazy

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
Jason Isaacs

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