Giants Quotes - Page 31

• Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

  Marine Le Pen

  Thinking, Engineering, United States

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• Clint Eastwood expects you to know what you're doing. He's going to take two giant steps back and let you do it. I have such appreciation for that part of him.

  Matt Damon

  Appreciation, Two, Steps

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Awards

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoos, Animal, Sea

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

  Clever, Media, People

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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

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

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• We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

  Julian Assange

  Talking, Organization, Political

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Squids, People

  "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

  Mario Batali

  Christmas, Giving, Labels

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• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  Adam Carolla

  Butterfly, Beer, Ideas

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• I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

  Miley Cyrus

  Perfect, Answers, Kind

  "Miley Cyrus: ‘Sex Is A Beautiful And Magical Thing’ 1.4k 1.2k". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Office, Care

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• If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.

  Vin Diesel

  Movie, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 2, 2005.

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• Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Train, Crowded

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• I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

  Dave Eggers

  Teacher, Peaches, Firsts

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• You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

  Chris Evans

  Fun, America, Special

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• Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Princess, Subway, Fats

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• When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Numbers, Trying

  "The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself — And All The Women Around You" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Priorities, Important

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• The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.

  Woody Harrelson

  Heart, Rights, Politician

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Personality, Roles

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Vcr, Tape

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• The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fall, Class, Banking

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.5, Broadway Books

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