#trapped

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#continent #crime #culturally #economically #mexico

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it. ↗

— Dudley Moore

#am #body #i #i am #i can

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#get #giving #idea #image #important

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#first #first time #going #i #love

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#brother #change #complacent #constructed #feel

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#bodies #climbers #counter #inside #lot

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! ↗

— George A. Romero

#does #filmmaker #genre #get #i

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#doing #i #into #kind #my own