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Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people. -- Norman Reedus
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. -- Josephine Hart
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. -- Paul Auster
That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. -- Josephine Hart
I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical. -- Sherman Alexie
We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community. -- Larry Crabb
Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality. -- George Woolf
I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. -- Helena Bonham Carter
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. -- D. H. Lawrence
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. -- J. K. Rowling
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. -- Gloria Steinem
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. -- Willa Cather
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. -- Stephen King
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
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain. -- Richard Dawkins
I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out. -- Wladimir Klitschko
I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman. -- Hilarie Burton
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
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
Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously. -- Olga Kurylenko
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. -- Henry Rollins
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl. -- Paul Haggis
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly. -- Matthew Quick
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
I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch. -- Richard Hammond
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
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
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
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. -- Bill Dedman
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
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
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. -- Doris Lessing
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. -- Kurt Cobain
Everybody's damaged by something. -- Emma Donoghue
The damaged loves the damaged. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters. -- Ruth Wilson
We cannot be damaged into health. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. -- Brad Mehldau
...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed. -- E. M. Forster
The damaged love the damaged. True fact. -- Chuck Palahniuk
We are all damaged goods in recovery. -- Charles Spurgeon
I am an adult, but a damaged one. -- S.J. Watson
I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run. -- Jason Isaacs
We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty -- Libba Bray
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type. -- Adelaide Clemens
Some of us are just less damaged than others. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. -- Curtis Jackson
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends -- Tamora Pierce
It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me -- Linda Gregg
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. -- Gregory David Roberts
I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness. -- Neal Ascherson
James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. -- Andy Warhol
You can be for something and still be damaged by it. -- Patterson Hood
People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That's what matters.' -- Veronica Roth
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. -- Vanessa Mae
By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing. -- Jon Ronson
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. -- Sigmund Freud
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird -- Audrey Niffenegger
She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. -- Anna McPartlin
For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged. -- Kathleen Robertson
How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace? -- Donald Miller
Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. -- Tony Kushner
that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun -- Kim Harrison
You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets. -- Nikita Gill
I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. -- Suzanne Collins
The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe. -- Marianne Williamson
I donâ??t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world. -- Dick Cheney
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. -- John Green
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons. -- Timothy Leary
I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up. -- Juliana Hatfield
We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. -- Chief Joseph
Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality. -- Christine Feehan
I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. -- Peter Singer
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. -- Don McCullin
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy. -- Akbar Ganji
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. -- Emily St. John Mandel
It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective. -- Moshe Dayan
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world -- Carl Levin
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. -- Audrey Niffenegger
The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships. -- Mark Twain
He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? -- Paul Darrow
The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses. -- Edward Snowden
The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged. -- Karen Abbott
Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day. -- Shannon Delany
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. -- J. Anthony Lukas
Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain. -- Elle Casey
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. -- Rick Bragg
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. -- Margot Asquith
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. -- Pat Conroy
We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us. -- Johnny Depp
If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage. -- Brian Schmidt
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. -- Tracy Letts
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years. -- Terence McKenna
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? -- Sonya Hartnett
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life~? -- Sonya Hartnett
I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets. -- Eugene Jarvis
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. -- Bryant McGill
One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. -- David Ogilvy
His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.... -- John Bartholomew Gough
Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable'my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't. -- Kola Boof
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. -- Peter Singer
I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail. -- Diablo Cody
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope! -- Billy Graham
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself. -- Mary J. Blige
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? -- George Carlin
I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss. -- Leni Zumas
The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men. -- Bronagh Gallagher
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. -- Brian Herbert
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. -- Max Barry
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged. -- Nick Harkaway
Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes -- Kelly Cates
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later. -- Haruki Murakami
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible. -- Nalini Singh
Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. -- Sarah Dessen
After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part. -- Philippa Perry

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