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  • Being broke is against my religion.

    "Song: "Ryder Music" ("The Massacre")". 2005.
  • There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

  • Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  • Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

    Mind   Poverty   Poor  
    Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

    Creative   Sound   Levels  
  • I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

    Book   Tired   Years  
    Source: www.fargonebooks.com
  • Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money...

    Blessing   Broke   Found  
    Song: Change Up, Album: From Nothin' to Somethin', 2007
  • The real excitement is playing the game.

    Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.63, Ballantine Books
  • She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

    Song   Rain   Men  
    Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada
  • The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

    Jail   Excuse   Broke  
  • The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

  • Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.

    Mind   Easy   Poor  
  • Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

    Poverty   Enough   Broke  
    1989 Everywoman's Money Book (with Lynne MacFarlane).
  • Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

    Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam
  • Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

  • Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

    Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons
  • The lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Funny   Bible   Sarcastic  
    Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press
  • Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

    "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.
  • Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

  • The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

    Jobs   School   Car  
  • I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

    Pain   Memories   Voice  
  • Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.

    Stupid   Fall   Sick  
  • Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

  • The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

    Rap   Artist   Broke  
  • Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

    Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media
  • I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

    Romantic   New York   Two  
  • There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

    Randy Alcorn (2016). “Grace: A Bigger View of God's Love”, p.17, Eternal Perspective Ministries
  • The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems. They back away from challenges. Ironically, they back themselves into the biggest problem of all ... being broke, or close to it.

    Mean   Thinking   Play  
    FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 03, 2014
  • Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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