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I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic bookkeeping and they`re bankrupt.

- Sean Connery

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you`re not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

- Jim Rogers

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it`s like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

- Mel Gibson

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you`re willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I`ll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

- Nick Nolte

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you`re uncool.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn`t end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it`s not about finances. No matter what, it`s about keeping it real.

- Vanilla Ice

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

- Arlen Specter

A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around - and we`re like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it`s lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.

- Mark Anthony

A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around '” and we`re like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it`s lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.

- Mark Anthony

Unless it`s your business or something, bankrupt just means you can`t have a bank account.

- Ray Winstone

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

- Jimmy Swaggart

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

- William Greider

If prices -- adjusted for inflation -- were to go above those of the 1970s oil crisis, then China would face a trade off. It either lets its refiners go bankrupt or it sacrifices its inflation target,

- Alan Chan

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

- Larry Elder

The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story or not, Enron would have gone bankrupt, investors would have lost billions of dollars and thousands of people would have lost their jobs. I just picked up on an underlying skepticism. If you had told me then that the company would go under by the end of the year, I would have never believed it. I was as naive as the rest of us.

- Bethany McLean

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

- Adam Rowley

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

- Albert Alschuler

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

- Alice Besterman

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

- Alvina Tan

It`s hard to imagine that there will be a move towards yanking that guarantee, or weakening the implied guarantee, because it just makes too much sense for the average U.S. citizen. Their benefit is they save money on the mortgage rate because of Fannie and Freddie`s status, but bear the risk of either or both of these businesses going bankrupt. The odds of that are so small that the benefit, in my view, greatly outweighs the cost, and it`s hard to see Congress changing that story. And Fannie and Freddie`s debt is the really the cheapest form of debt outside of Treasury debt.

- Angelica Diaz

It all depends on how the bankrupt airlines ... utilize the cost savings they achieve. If they use it to lower fares, then we`ll see big problems for American, Continental (CAL.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) and even the discount airlines. The cost per seat mile will be lowered fairly significantly.

- Anglican Bishop Robert Duncan