Massive Quotes - Page 18

• I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

  David Ginola

  Fans, Horror, Film

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• I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

  Emily Browning

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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

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• ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Media, Political

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Walks, Streets, Stills

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• If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Kings, Body, Want

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  Calvin Harris

  Gone, Breakfast, Buffets

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Guitar, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really.

  Sharon Horgan

  Cat, Car, Way

  "This much I know". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Trying, Honest

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Revenge, Penance, Why Not

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

  Aphex Twin

  Wells, Moved, My Own

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

  Alex Kapranos

  Impact, Trying, Matter

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

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, America, Maintaining

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• I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

  Zayn Malik

  Past, One Direction, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

  John Noble

  Children, Fans, Fandoms

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  Gary Neville

  Brother, Sorry, Careers

  "Ashley Young emerges from the fog to give England a winger windfall" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2011.

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• The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

  Keith Olbermann

  People, Together, Want

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• I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

  Jared Polis

  Meaningful, Ecosystems, Innovation

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• If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Country, Fighting, Cutting

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

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• I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

  Emeli Sande

  Dream, School, Kids

  "Emeli Sande: The other Adele goes from med school to music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 05, 2012.

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• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Careers, Age, Hiatus

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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