Enormous Quotes - Page 5

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  Oscar Levant

  Character, Luck, Pretty Face

  Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) ch. 11

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• Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

  Susie Bright

  Book, Reading, People

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• I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

  Rick Baker

  Jobs, People, Crew

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• Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

  Tom Harkin

  Cells, Support, Promise

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• I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Men, Clouds, Sky

  Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin

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• It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

  Jan de Bont

  Demand, Pressure, Sequels

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• So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Lack Of Love, Language, Film

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

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• Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Tree, Facts, Scientist

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• My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

  Alexander Calder

  Fans, Mail, Six

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• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  Fernand Leger

  Giving, Personality, Enlargement

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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• Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

  Justin Kaplan

  Memories, Television, Lines

  "Miles of Aisles" by L. M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 1995.

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• Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

  John McTiernan

  Fun, Thrillers, Filmmaker

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• To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

  Jerry West

  Sports, Money, Hurt

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• Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

  David Amram

  Artist

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• I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Book, Years, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Successful, Pressure, Being Successful

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• Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Music, Beautiful, Stars

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• Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Motherhood, Careers

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Parent

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Real, Buddhism, Important

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Decision, Research

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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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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• What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

  Christoph Waltz

  Jobs, Pride, Ethos

  Source: collider.com

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• Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Reading, Honor

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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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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