Enormous Quotes - Page 12

• So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Giving, Special, Energy

  "Diane Von Furstenberg And Jack Dorsey Talk Influences, Parents, And Whether Or Not They'd Make Good Employees". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Men, Drawing, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.

  Ben Maddow

  Importance, Hidden Meaning, Complexes

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• It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

  Joel Klein

  Want, Interest, Knows

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• Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

  Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

  Men, Miserable, Architect

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• The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Evil, Age

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1283, Ageless Reads

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• In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now - a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel.

  Junot Diaz

  War, Dirty, Writing

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Optimistic, Emotional, Thinking

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, College, Leisure

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Potatoes, Environment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

  Ted Cruz

  Community, Done, Damage

  Tenth Republican Debate in Texas, time.com. February 26, 2016.

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• While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Ideas, Differences, Average

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Age, Brilliant

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Motherhood, Gender, Inequality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, Aunt, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.

  Simon Romero

  Country, Brazil, Today

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.

  Charles R. Morris

  Couple, War, Book

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.

  Michael Kimmel

  Thoughtful, Guy, Dumb

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.

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• What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.

  Mark Millar

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Diversity, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

  Antonio Damasio

  Biographies, Reason, Importance

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

  Louis Menand

  College, People, News

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

  Tod Machover

  Technology, Iphone, Rocks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Healthy, Television

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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