Tall Quotes - Page 16

• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

  Naomi Grossman

  Feet, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Holiday, Winter

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• I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

  Allison Janney

  Hurt, Men, People

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• No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Stupid, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.

  Boy George

  Sexy, Long, Interesting

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

  Jim Cummings

  Wind Blowing, Voice, Comforting

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• Ive always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywoods eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.

  Coco Austin

  Baby, School, Eye

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• What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight stories tall and it's immersive, and you can see it in 3D, you really feel like you're being transported to that place.

  Greg MacGillivray

  Museums, Eight, Aquariums

  Source: collider.com

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• People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

  Chris Rock

  White, People, Black

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It's a privilege. It's a real honor. It's a challenge. Michael and I always feel we stand on tall shoulders when we make these films. Audiences come to them with a lot of good will because of what's come before. We just try to make the best film we can, each time, and hope that we satisfy the fans. I'm sure, with Skyfall, that we will. I think it's a terrific film. I hope the audiences enjoy it, as much as we've enjoyed making it.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

  Sophia Loren

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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• He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. 
  (on Peter Crouch)

  Michael Owen

  England, Fantastic, Peter

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• The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

  Leslie Jones

  Strong, Feet, Black

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• The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.

  Gary Gulman

  Hair, People, Guy

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• A lot of players in Europe aren't as tall as the other guys, so they have to be stocky to physically compete.

  Freddy Adu

  Player, Europe, Usa

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• I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dancer, Becoming, Enough

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gay, Sarcasm, Air

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Feet, People, Pounds

  "Q&A: Chris Hemsworth on fame, Thor and 'Heart of the Sea'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.cnsnews.com. December 7, 2015.

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• Every person, young and old, has had his own personal experience with falling. Falling is what we mortals do. But as long as we are willing to rise up again and continue on the path toward the spiritual goals God has given us, we can learn something from failure and become better and happier as a result. My dear friends, no matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up! Your destiny is a glorious one! Stand tall and walk in the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine. You can do it now!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Jesus, Fall

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• To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people
  by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last
  one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Years, America

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• It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Couple, Husband, Successful

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• ...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports.

  Ann Coulter

  Grandmother, Airports, Law

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