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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  Ed Wood

  Work, Too Short, Going To Work

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• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  Laura Miller

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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• I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

  Richard Kiel

  Two, Feet, Guy

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• Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

  Ricky Schroder

  Order, Trying, Periods

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• The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

  Timothy West

  War, Reality, Long

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Ice, Feet

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• I dribble rhymes like basketball...
  People call me 'E.T.'
  What's that, Shaq man?
  'Extra Tall.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Rap, Men

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• I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Fighting, Feet

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.4711, Ballantine Books

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• Firstly, there no such person as Death.
  Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
  Third, he doesn't exist either.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Horse, White

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• The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

  Jennifer Echols

  Dog, Boys, Practice

  Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Warrior, Long, Design

  Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.

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• A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beauty, Daughter, Fairs

  'A Dream of Fair Women' (1832) l. 87

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• So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil.

  Quentin Smith

  Simple, Feet, Evil

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• All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

  George Stigler

  Two, Milton, Economist

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• Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

  Francine Pascal

  Self Esteem, Feet, Feelings

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• Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

  Paul McCartney

  Laughter, Sadness, Black

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• I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.

  Moby

  Wall, Fall, East Berlin

  "Giorgio Moroder". Interview with Moby, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

  Martin Filler

  Technology, Men, Architecture

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• I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.

  David Sedaris

  Jesus, Crazy, Book

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• Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.

  Jonathan Swift

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.3013, Delphi Classics

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• I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

  Greyson Chance

  Voice, Lows

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• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

  George Eliot

  Love, Flower, Blessed

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3798, Delphi Classics

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• In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.

  Chris Rock

  Zebras, Princess, Men

  "Rock's Riff On Animation: Right On Or Really Wrong?" by Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Sleep, Clay, Toil

  'Greater Love' (written 1917)

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