Enormous Quotes - Page 33

• For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Years, President

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• Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, World

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

  Richard E. Grant

  Names

  "Richard E Grant: 'I hate restaurants where waiters have a PhD in being up themselves'" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

  Thornton Wilder

  Money, Differences, World

  Thornton Wilder (1962). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  Ezra Pound

  Imagination, Brain, Suspense

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.1208, Delphi Classics

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

  Ruth Benedict

  Important, Roles, Inheritance

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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• The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

  Ludwig von Mises

  Business, Thinking, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

  Edwin Newman

  Communication, People, Worry

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Home, Simple

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• Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.143, Ballantine Books

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• At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Reading, Eden

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• I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

  George Hamilton

  Book, Numbers, Obsessive

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

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• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, America, Stupidity

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• The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

  John Welch

  Leadership, Smart, Numbers

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• If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Character, Numbers

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• People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Family, Mom, Dad

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• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  Ted Cruz

  Children, Taken, Blessing

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• It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

  Tracy Pollan

  Character, Dark, Emotional

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• I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Effort, Everyday

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• School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

  Enrico Colantoni

  School, Yale, Important

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

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• I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mean, Fans, Directors

  "Georgina Chapman of Marchesa on Canon's Project Imaginat10n". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

  David Agus

  Sleep, Athlete, Exercise

  "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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