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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• 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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• Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

  Mark Twain

  Math, Science, Men

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.475, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.

  David Letterman

  Mother, Ice, President

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."
  
  (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)

  T.C. Boyle

  Football, Cheer, Believe

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• Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

  Richard Koch

  Simple, Chance, Chances Are

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.85, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

  Alfred Molina

  Home, Wife, Cheese

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.

  Lloyd deMause

  Book, Childhood, Historical

  "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.

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• In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Dog, Garden, Rocks

  Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

  Aimee Bender

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.

  Garth Greenwell

  Crazy, Teaching, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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