Bigger Quotes - Page 35

• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself. ... I say, Spit on the big, fancy schemes. I want all the little things first. Then perhaps we can get on to the bigger things.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Mistake, Simple, Political

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• The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Country, Looks, Maps

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• Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

  Jennie Garth

  Mistake, Kids, Parent

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• A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger and more general concept, animal. The man, and the cat, and the dog, and the plant, and the tree, all come under the still more general concept, life. Again, all these, all beings and all materials, come under the one concept of existence, for we all are in it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world.

  Stansfield Turner

  Running, Country, Money

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• I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Wife, Size

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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

  Calista Flockhart

  Wish, Bigs, Breasts

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• I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

  Tina Turner

  Want Something, Clothes, People

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• I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

  Sean William Scott

  Sports, Play, Work Out

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• I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

  Joe Frazier

  Fighting, People, Guy

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

  Paul Kantner

  Form, Certain, Situation

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Boston, Berries

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Bunch

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

  Sandra Bullock

  Integrity, Mouths, Humans

  "Sandra Bullock to Lauer: On adoption". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.newsday.com.

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• If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Guy, Trying, Sake

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• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  Youssou N'Dour

  Giving, Musician, Records

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• I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Pain, Thinking, Years

  "Bronzed beauty! Alessandra Ambrosio flaunts her impressive physique as she goes for a dip in Brazil". Dailymail Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 12, 2017.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  Fede Alvarez

  Fans, Crafts, Film

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

  Marco Arment

  People, Shining, Needs

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• I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

  John Barrowman

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.

  Joko Beck

  Vacation, People, Interesting

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