Enormous Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

  Missi Pyle

  Character, People, Comfort

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• I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

  Oren Peli

  Successful, Lucky, Bonus

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• I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mean, Talking, Land

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• The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

  Sarah Paulson

  Years, Ideas, Personality

  "Sarah Paulson on the twisty second season of American Horror Story". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. January 24, 2013.

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• There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Trying, Littles

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• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Father, Play

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• The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

  Eric Schlosser

  United States, Cain, Murder

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, Animal, Plant

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• We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Ice, Data

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

  Nicholas Stern

  Running, Risk, Half

  "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.

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• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

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• Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

  Douglas Wilder

  Country, Organization, Foundation

  "After debt deal mess, Americans lose" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 03, 2011.

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• I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

  Vera Wang

  Hate, Phones, People

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• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  Mike Leigh

  Selfish, Resilience, Acting

  "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

  Tom Lantos

  Political, Generations, Information

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• I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

  Ben Marcus

  Book, Thinking, Darkness

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

  Donald Miller

  Morning, Sunday, Church Service

  "Born-again rebel Don Miller reveals 'best sermon I ever heard'" by John Blake, www.cnn.com.

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• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Lucky, Metabolism

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• My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

  Anthony Minghella

  Strong, Grandmother, Facts

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• Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.

  James Morcan

  Drug, Black, Criminals

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• I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

  Simon Helberg

  Tvs, Hey, Might

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

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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