Scales Quotes - Page 39

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  Zadie Smith

  Artist, Errors, Politician

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• I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Men, Law

  Commencement address at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 8 June 1978

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• My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Earth, Firsts

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• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Opportunity, Impact, Carbon Emissions

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• No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Bumps, Levels, Fans

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Stephenie Meyer Talk THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2". collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

  Barbra Streisand

  Two, Doubt, Balance

  "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

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• We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

  David Suzuki

  Chemicals, Planets, Globes

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• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Cities, United States

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

  Norman Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Loyalty

  Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”

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• The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

  Stewart Udall

  Balance, Limited Resources, Use

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• People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

  Fred Upton

  Country, Jobs, People

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• The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

  Steve Vai

  Real, Player, Rocks

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

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• Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

  Gore Vidal

  Democracy, Politics, Form

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 21, 2014

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• Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

  Tom Vilsack

  Young, Farmers, Locals

  "A New Guide to Local and Regional Food" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Pain, Enlightenment, Twenties

  "Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert". www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  Orson Welles

  Ducks, Election, Popularity

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• I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

  Olivia Wilde

  House, Too Much, Tao

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Performing, Units

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• At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

  James Wolcott

  Voice, Office, Break Out

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Country, Writing, Mean

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

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• There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Technology, Opportunity

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

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• Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

  Julian Baggini

  Rip, Eye, Thinking

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Animal, Cities

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