Massive Quotes

• This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Drama, Thinking, Different

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

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• I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Passion, Fascination, Culture

  "Mad About The Music". "The Daily Telegraph", June 13, 1996.

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• I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

  Martin Gore

  Track, Fans, Essex

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• Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

  Hunter Hayes

  People, Achievement, Spirit

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• Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

  Keith Henson

  Military, Movement, Social

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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• You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Needs, Poor, Recruitment

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• I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

  Noel Gallagher

  News, London, Firsts

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• I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Artist, Kind, Starving

  "Ashton Kutcher On Mila Kunis: ‘I Am Going To Do Everything In My Power To Have This Relationship Be Private’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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• One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Law, House

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• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, World, Helm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Iraq, Voting

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• If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

  Ann Coulter

  Hurt, Hate, Police

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• The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Heaven, Doe, Earth

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Successful, Stories, Ends

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• I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

  Kelly Lynch

  Thinking, Revolution, Acid

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• If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

  Robin Gibb

  Zero, Heart, Two

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

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

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

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• I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

  Penny Marshall

  Insecurity, Strange, Combination

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

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Effort, Trying, Technique

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, People, Atrocities

  "CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett". Debate with Paula Zahn, www.freerepublic.com. May 30, 2002.

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• I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Fans, Grew Up, Grew

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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