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• Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Horse, Possums, Boners

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• I'm not as anti-sports as I've led people to believe - I've been to a Giants game. I've been to Giants Stadium and I've watched games. I've watched lots of them, you know? I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

  Kevin Corrigan

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Earth

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Thoughtful, Two

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• The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Believe, Political, Population

  Jeffrey Tucker (2012). “A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age”, p.319, Laissez Faire Books

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• Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

  Jim Toomey

  Character, Sharks, Two

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• I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize as a part of me, a part of all of us that celebrates life. It's my great pleasure to share with you that energy which inspires me; this great visual beauty of our world.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Beautiful, Cities, Our World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

  Carolyn Kizer

  Ideas, Brain, Vision

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• Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

  Mark Buchanan

  Ethical, Midget

  Mark Buchanan (2009). “The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.

  R. J. Palacio

  Trying, Mouths, Used

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.

  Edward Mazria

  Strong, Design, Understanding

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Games, Training, Next

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants

  David Ogilvy

  People, Bigger, Company

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.105, Profile Books

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• Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

  Andy Warhol

  Ice Cream, Rodeo, Butterscotch

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• Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

  Angelina Jolie

  Adventure, Maps, Life Is

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• I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

  Peter Green

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

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• Solomon's Laws:
  8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

  Paul Levine

  Girlfriend, Smart, Law

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• Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Responsibility, Forever, Guilt

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• An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Home, Eye

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• We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Powerful, Taken, Reality

  John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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• When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Names, Temptation, Way

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• Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sex, Squids, Scandal

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• I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

  Ian Mcewan

  Beautiful, Daughter, Believe

  "Some Notes on the Novella". www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2012.

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