Massive Quotes - Page 12

• There is a massive gender imbalance on TV

  Dawn O'Porter

  Imbalance, Tvs, Gender

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• I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

  Charlie Hunnam

  College, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

  Emile Hirsch

  Girl, Lap, Pillow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

  Mary Ruefle

  Mean, Years, Two

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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• It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

  Annie Dillard

  Believe, Imagination, Judging

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.146, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

  Sean O'Casey

  Work, People, Giving

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.

  Mike McCue

  Business, Thinking, Competition

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Tom Tancredo

  Party, Important, Immigration

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain.

  Stan Moore

  Weed, Pain, Opportunity

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Survival

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• What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Wise, Courage, Caring

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• There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

  Neve Campbell

  Nice, Creative, Sitting

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• The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Islamic, Adventure

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

  Bruce Davison

  America, Issues, News

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• Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

  Steve Aylett

  Butterfly, Wings, World

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• There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

  Jimmy Somerville

  Balls, Glitter

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  Ward Churchill

  Politics, Innocence, Destruction

  "Ward Churchill’s Case To Win Back His Job At CU-Boulder To Be Heard By Colorado Supreme Court Today" by Matt Ferner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• I was starstruck by Michelle Obama. She's an amazing-looking lady, and I'm a massive Barack Obama fan anyway.

  Niall Horan

  Fans, Barack

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• We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

  David Brion Davis

  Slave Labor, Faces, Contradiction

  David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Jobs, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

  Steven Gerrard

  Disappointment, Not Good Enough, Hard

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• Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

  Edward Sapir

  Art, Work, Generations

  Edward Sapir (2014). “Language”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, People, Community

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