Bigger Quotes - Page 6

• The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

  Dennis Prager

  Heart, Competition, Police

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• You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

  John C. Reilly

  Long, Hollywood, Kind

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  The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

  Sally Ride

  Stars, Looks, Brighter

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

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• The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

  Will Rogers

  Dog, Bones, Payment

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• We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Opportunity, Land

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Special, Use

  Special Coverage for the RNC with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2008.

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• We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 20, 2011

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• My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Stronger, My Sister

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• My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

  Jill Scott

  Son, Years, Two

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• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Beautiful, Ocean

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• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  Haile Selassie

  Courage, Men, Race

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

  Michael Sheen

  Sorry, Names, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

  Jessica Simpson

  School, Accessories, Looks

  "Simpson: They're real, and they're spectacular" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. August 9, 2005.

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• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Children, Bigger And Better, Having Children

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• I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

  Will Smith

  Life, Positive, People

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• The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

  George Soros

  Situation, Turns

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• I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

  Jordin Sparks

  Beautiful, Mom, Growing Up

  Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Memorable, Feminist

  Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

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• You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Stephenie Meyer Talk THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2". collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

  John Stossel

  Rights, Erosion, Government

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  Taylor Swift

  Careers, Lists, Make You Happy

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• Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

  Matt Taibbi

  Minorities, Bills, Amendments

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.20, Black Cat

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Failure, People, Safety

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Management, Projects

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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