Size Quotes - Page 14

• I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Cutting, Agency, Numbers

  "'The last chance election for Britain'". Speech by the Rt Hon William Hague MP, leader of the Conservative party, to the spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

  Geri Halliwell

  Different, Shapes, Different Shapes And Sizes

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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

  Garrett Hardin

  Rights, Decision, Choices

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.265, Oxford University Press

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• If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wisdom, Anger, Power

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• I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

  Salma Hayek

  Zero, Want, Glad

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• There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

  Edith Head

  Stars, Matter, Standards

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.

  Carolina Herrera

  Girl, Sexy, Confusion

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• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

  Eric Hoffer

  Cutting, People, Elements

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• Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Doe, Territory, Grandeur

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.110, Library of Alexandria

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• My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, Idols, Wish

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

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• If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

  Katherine Jenkins

  Cutting, Thinking, Acting

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

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• Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Style, Suits

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

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• Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  Bobby Jindal

  Rhode Island, Islands, Years

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• I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mcdonalds, Way, Saws

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• I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

  Tony Judt

  Believe, Should Have, Political

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• I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Zero, Work Out, Healthy

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• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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• I always did feel beautiful when I was pregnant, but I do feel more me when I'm my normal size.

  Heidi Klum

  Beautiful, Normal, Feels

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Risk, And Love

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• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Two, Photo Of Me

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• Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Clothes, Want

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• I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Bones

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• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Two, Dresses, Gains

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• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  Queen Latifah

  Kids, Shoes, Perfect

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• I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

  Queen Latifah

  Jobs, Sleep, Directors

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