Giants Quotes - Page 32

• They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Hip Hop, Trying

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Opportunity, Careers

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• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  Sam Kinison

  Rocks, People, Video

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• I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

  Anne Lamott

  Fire, Media, Gossip

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• The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Team, Daddy

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• The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Ignorant, Cookies

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• Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, High Heels, Needs

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• I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

  George Lucas

  Phones, Facts, Accepting

  "A Conversation with George Lucas" by Richard Corliss, March 14, 2006.

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• Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

  David Lynch

  Inspiration, Pieces

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

  David Lynch

  Quality, Cameras, Way

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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• I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

  Bruno Mars

  Stars, California, Age

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Character, Writing

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

  Jesse McCartney

  Want, Super Bowl, Jet

  "McCartney's Big Apple sports dreams". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants.

  Jesse McCartney

  Crazy, Fans, I Am Crazy

  "McCartney's Big Apple sports dreams". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. December 28, 2010.

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• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Discovery, Ideas

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• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  Ralph Merkle

  Needs, Machines, Want

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• Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Blessing, Giving

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• I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

  Michael Moore

  80s And 90s, Michigan, Hometown

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• Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Anxiety, Despair

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Culture

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

  Michael Phelps

  Boys, Doors, Bed

  "Michael Phelps: Ready for London games?". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Games, Pyramids

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  Amy Poehler

  Comedy, Sombreros, Pregnant

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