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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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• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Economy, Rating

  "Turner: Murdoch is a 'warmonger'", www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2003.

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• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Shania Twain

  Daughter, Country, Grandpa

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

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• The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Adjectives, Inches

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• Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

  Jesse Ventura

  Love Is, Government

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

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• Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

  Scott Walker

  Impact, Play, Roles

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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Fall, Thinking

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• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Games, Losing

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• Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

  Amy Winehouse

  People, Skins, Energy

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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• I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Children, School

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• It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

  Tom Wolfe

  Giving, Imagination, Slice Of Life

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• Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Athletic, Evolve

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Careers, Imagination

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• Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Making Money, Humans, Human Beings

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• International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Successful, Sweden, International

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• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

  Charles Jencks

  Horse, Talking, Culture

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• The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Bullying, Privacy, Site

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Hands, Looks, Mouths

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

  Christine Quinn

  Projects, Tendencies, Harder

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• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Space, Suits

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• The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

  Jeanette Winterson

  God, Mother, Buddhist

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• They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

  Johnny Depp

  World, Used, Stills

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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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