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• As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her head. Heavy molding around the large windows and doors bespoke a quality and craftsmanship that was obvious even in the dim night. “Good God! It’s massive!” Jack paused with his foot on the last step. “I do wish you’d keep those comments until we are in bed, love. I would appreciate them all the more there.

  Karen Hawkins

  Home, Night, Doors

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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Stupid, Drinking

  "I Think I'm Meant to Be Dead". Interview with Lauren Zoric, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia will say, "Turn around, Bobby, you're snoring," and he'll turn around and for a moment it'll be silent. Then he'll erupt into a massive snore and Luca and I will kill ourselves laughing and my dad will wake up and bark, "Get to bed!" and not even a second later he'll be snoring and we'll kill ourselves laughing again and Mia will say, "What is this? Grand Central Station?

  Melina Marchetta

  Dad, Night, Talking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Rose, Earth

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

  Anton Yelchin

  Community, Environment, Capitalist

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• I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.

  Cher Lloyd

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

  Adam Richman

  Boys, Style, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have eight times online since January [2016] in which Hillary Clinton has had massive coughing fits in which she couldn't complete her speech. I've seen her lifted onto airplanes. And I don't know what's wrong with her.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Airplane, Eight, Speech

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

  Reince Priebus

  Broken, Promise, Care

  "On 2nd anniversary, GOP says health care law bad prescription". www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

  Valery Bryusov

  Awful, Genocide, Massacres

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• Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

  Dominic Cooper

  Stupid, Risk, Trying

  "Dominic Cooper Goes a Little Bit Rock And Roll". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, War, Mean

  "Death: The Final Stage of Growth". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 5, 1974.

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Kuwait

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.

  Ilona Andrews

  Worry, My Boyfriend, Mountain

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• We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.

  Pittacus Lore

  Mom, Eight, Talking

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• Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

  Lauren Graham

  Successful, Differences, Vision

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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• The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Bigger, Clara

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• When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

  Louis Tomlinson

  Smile, Running, Growing Up

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• I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve been playing with dead people since the day I was born, so it’s good thing, yet the Big Bad scared me. Which brings me to the reason I called.” “Which was to give me nightmares for the rest of my life?” “Oh, no, that’s just a plus. Why was I so scared of him?” “Hon, for one thing he was this powerful, massive, black smokelike being.” “So, you’re saying I’m a racist?

  Darynda Jones

  Growing Up, Powerful, People

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• In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, America, Years

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Years, Three

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.

  Nick Blaemire

  Art, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.

  Darren Fletcher

  Song, Thinking, Wonder

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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