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• As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Space, Clouds

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

  Will Smith

  Alchemist, Gold, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

  George Meyer

  Catholic, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Thinking, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  Wayne McGregor

  Holiday, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. February 2004.

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• I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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• Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

  Natalie Dormer

  Heart, Character, Roles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

  James Franco

  Real, Acting, Actors

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• If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, People, Ordinary

  "Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

  Bill Watterson

  Hilarious, Fun, Giving

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Boards, Hats

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Moving, Moving Ahead, Moving Back

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.210, Macmillan

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Looks, Sandwiches

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.224, Canongate Books

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• I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Rocks, Battle

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1160, Penguin UK

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• I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

  Ann Aguirre

  Mother, Hate, Dirty

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.31, Penguin

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• Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Meat, Oreos

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

  Eoin Colfer

  Blue, Nuts, Squids

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• Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Taken, Winning

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Past, Years

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

  Glen Duncan

  Struggle, Blame, Adam

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.

  David Wellington

  Real, Blood, People

  David Wellington (2007). “99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale”, p.37, Broadway Books

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• For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

  Nick Hornby

  Average, Fever Pitch, Moron

  "Fever Pitch". Book by Nick Hornby, 1992.

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