Mega Quotes - Page 2

• The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Games, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• "Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.

  Kenneth Turan

  Stars, Shopping, Feet

  "'Joy' Sinks Into A Morass As Its Protagonist Faces Irritating Obstacles". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 25, 2015.

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• I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.

  Junot Diaz

  Color, Nerd, Males

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I had no idea I was part of what was going to be a big mega-hit. I thought I was doing a B sci-fi movie [Independence Day]. And, actually, it was Jeff Goldblum who looked at me one day and said, "You know, I think this is going to be really something." And I said, "Well, I hope you're right." And sure enough, it turned out to be.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Ideas, Independence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions or billions of people, I feel less anxious about it because I actually understand what the threats are. There's nothing like researching something exhaustively to make it less terrifying.

  Annalee Newitz

  Volcanoes, People, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?

  Kevin Starr

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.

  Gene Weingarten

  Names, Gone, Recognition

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

  Kshama Sawant

  Competition, Development, Monopoly

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Cities, Population, World

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• I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Winning, Awards, Law

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• Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Obamacare, Magic, Links

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Cities, Expectations, Car

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• The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  War, Lying, Media

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• The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Doors, People

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• Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Big Fish, Stories

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• All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Suffering Of Others, Want

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• I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Champion

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• You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

  David Fincher

  Mean, Stories, Use

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• I don't think there is such a thing as
  an intelligent mega-rich
  person.
  
  For who with a fine mind can look
  out upon this world and
  hoard
  
  what can nourish
  a thousand
  souls.

  Kabir

  Thinking, Intelligent, Soul

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• Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.

  Apolo Ohno

  Appreciation, Japan, Cities

  "Traveling with the Stars: Apolo Anton Ohno". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 8, 2009.

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• I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

  Rebecca Black

  Girl, Careers, People

  "Rebecca Black Was Profiled By New York Magazine. Yes, I’m Serious" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. September 26, 2011.

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• There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Country, Stars

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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