I don’t feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I’m afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don’t think we are the best. – Jean Reno
I feel good doing it. It’s not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I’m just losing the ball dribbling. I think I’m handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man. – Kevin Durant
‘Bad Blood’ tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he’s attacked by a vampire, he figures it’s game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick’s blood poison the vampire. – Jonathan Maberry
When for so long you can’t get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it. – Jessica Savitch
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that. – Julie Delpy
The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear – from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence – that America is losing its allure in much of the world. – Lee H. Hamilton
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they’re largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing ’37 years of emotional baggage.’ – Martha Beck
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. – Jeffrey Tambor
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn’t think about this very much because I’m almost weeping when I think about it. – Lawrence Halprin
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you’re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it’ll wake them up. – Leo Kottke
Losing is not fun. I know the fans don’t like it, but they don’t have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don’t like watching bad teams. – Jerry Reinsdorf
There’s nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them. – Kate Mara
For people that are degenerates, if you’ve spent so much time feeling a certain way, it’s actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand. – Jason Gedrick
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him. – Kate Beckinsale
I don’t think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe. – Jo Beverley
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development – and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world. – Louis Bacon
Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself. – Lauren Miller
Dying in childbirth is something that’s not new; it’s been going on for ages, and so it’s not something that people focus on; it’s not something that gets funded a lot, and it’s exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers. – Liya Kebede
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you’re not being spontaneous, you’re just recreating something. – Karl Urban
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there’s just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don’t talk about it and don’t prepare for it. – Laura Linney
We’re constantly losing – we’re losing time, we’re losing ourselves. I don’t feel for the things I lost. – John Banville
I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater. – Liz Murray
It’s not really that I’ve been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it’s just that I’ve been losing my hearing for a long time! So it’s actually very important for me because I’m actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better! – Leslie Nielsen
Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn’t win, I just felt horrible. – Joel Parkinson
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it. – James Forrestal
And there is no getting away from the fact – and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn’t go far enough. They say why isn’t it in place now? Why don’t I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That’s hurting Obama. – Juan Williams