Chunks Quotes

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Perseverance, Jobs, Writing

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• I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Meat, Vegan

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• I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

  Liam Neeson

  Pie, Dry, Littles

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Important, Unbroken

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Couple, Moving

  "Billy Bob Thornton Talks JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR, Getting Back in the Director’s Chair, BAD SANTA 2, FX’s FARGO Miniseries, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2013.

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

  Max Fisher

  Horse, War, Technology

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

  Billy Joe Shaver

  Coal, Someday, Diamond

  Song: I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal

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• My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

  Earl Thomas

  Greatness, Life Is, Bigs

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• There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

  Jay Baruchel

  Play

  "Inside She's Out of My League". Interview with Vicki Salemi, www.sheknows.com. March 9, 2010.

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• There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Reality, Facts

  "Revisiting the Winogrand Archive: Philip Lorca diCorcia in Conversation with Leo Rubinfien". Interview with Leo Rubinfien, aperture.org.

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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pineapples, Baths, Wells

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

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• We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

  Mona Simpson

  Forever, World, Whole

  Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage

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• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

  Nick Hornby

  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

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• When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

  Bill Watterson

  Hilarious, Fun, Giving

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Boards, Hats

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Moving, Moving Ahead, Moving Back

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.210, Macmillan

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• The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Looks, Sandwiches

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.224, Canongate Books

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Adam

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• It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

  James Taylor

  Years, Way Forward, Growth

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

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• I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Games, People

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• I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Children, Growing Up, Home

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• One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

  Dick Cheney

  Fall, Taken, Reason

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Rocks, Battle

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1160, Penguin UK

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