Chunks Quotes

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Perseverance, Jobs, Writing

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• I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Meat, Vegan

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• I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

  Liam Neeson

  Pie, Dry, Littles

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Important, Unbroken

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Couple, Moving

  "Billy Bob Thornton Talks JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR, Getting Back in the Director’s Chair, BAD SANTA 2, FX’s FARGO Miniseries, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2013.

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• The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

  Max Fisher

  Horse, War, Technology

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

  Billy Joe Shaver

  Coal, Someday, Diamond

  Song: I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal

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• My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

  Earl Thomas

  Greatness, Life Is, Bigs

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• There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

  Jay Baruchel

  Play

  "Inside She's Out of My League". Interview with Vicki Salemi, www.sheknows.com. March 9, 2010.

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• There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Reality, Facts

  "Revisiting the Winogrand Archive: Philip Lorca diCorcia in Conversation with Leo Rubinfien". Interview with Leo Rubinfien, aperture.org.

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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pineapples, Baths, Wells

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

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• We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

  Mona Simpson

  Forever, World, Whole

  Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage

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• The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Law, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Oil, Russian Economy, Way

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Reality, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• A big chunk of [Donald] Trump's tax cut would go to businesses.

  Kelly McEvers

  Cutting, Bigs, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work

  Connie Chung

  Morning, Taken, School

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• I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

  Bryan Cranston

  Play, Speech, Panic

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

  William Kristol

  Senior, Country, Military

  "A Note on Romney’s Arrogant and Stupid Remarks". www.weeklystandard.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Look at what Hillary Clinton did in Libya with Gadhafi. Gadhafi's out. It's a mess. And, by the way, ISIS has a good chunk of their oil. I'm sure you probably have heard that. It was a disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Oil, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

  M. L. Stedman

  Life, Thinking, Done

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, America, Giving

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Whales, Stories

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