Enormous Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

  Ricky Jay

  Art, Hands, Magic

  "Seven Lies About Lying". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Natal

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

  Micky Dolenz

  Kids, Physics, Quantum

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• The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

  Joshua Ferris

  Everyday, Answers, Everyday Life

  "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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• If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

  David Graeber

  Country, Powerful, Military

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• We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

  David Graeber

  Jobs, Self, Finishing

  David Graeber (2013). “The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement”, p.68, Spiegel & Grau

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Ideas, Impact

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Coal, Economy

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Wall, Bricks

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• Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

  Peter Guber

  Opportunity, Together, Great Success

  "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.

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• I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

  Sally Hawkins

  School, Play, People

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• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  Karen Mills

  Jewels, President, Saws

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Suffering

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• Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

  Michelle Malkin

  Ponds, Scum, Biofuels

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• India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Uplifting, Art, Creativity

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• Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Diversity, Challenges

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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Cancer, Thinking

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• I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Mean, Suits, Dresses

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• Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Tiny, Paradoxical

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• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  Douglas Preston

  War, Book, Desire

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• The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

  Eugene Wigner

  Ontology, Logic, Mysterious

  Eugene Paul Wigner, Jagdish Mehra, Arthur S. Wightman (1997). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.535, Springer Science & Business Media

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• On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews...In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge...Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land...Those who think that are making a mistake.

  Denis Fahey

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

  Donna Leon

  Writing, Thinking, Demand

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