Enormous Quotes - Page 17

• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Birthday, Somewhere Else, Careers

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• Britain's got talent, enormous talent, that's very obvious.

  Simon Cowell

  Talent, Britain, Obvious

  "Simon Cowell's Sun sermon decoded" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2010.

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• I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

  Roger Daltrey

  Feels, Songwriters, Amount

  "Roger Daltrey solicits songs from those who can't sing" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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• If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Numbers, Justice, Accountability

  "Dershowitz: Torture could be justified". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2003.

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• I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Law, Presumption Of Innocence

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• My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Men, Way

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• The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

  Sylvia Earle

  Enormous Quantities, Two, Oil

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Creativity, Artist

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• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  Warren Farrell

  People, Needs, Amazed

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

  Julian Fellowes

  Husband, Father, Husband And Father

  "My family values". Interview With Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Scripts, Driving, Bigs

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• There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Phones, Differences

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• Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Responsibility, Expectations

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• I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  Yield, Hunger And Poverty, Increase

  "5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview" by Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

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• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Our Generation, White, People

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• The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

  William Gibson

  Distance, Book, Cutting

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• I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Progress, Trying, States

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• I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

  Richard E. Grant

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Impossible

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• In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Light, Space

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• I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Iron, Talent

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• There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

  Jim Hightower

  Effort, Campaigns, Levels

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• I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

  Linda Hunt

  Thinking, People, Underdog

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