Enormous Quotes - Page 18

• What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fate, People, Dignity

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• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Rainbow, Way, Speak

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• There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

  Norah Jones

  Albums, Pressure, Firsts

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• Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

  Erica Jong

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Would Be

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• Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Character, Creating, Mind

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• I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

  Marian Keyes

  Thinking, Denial, Way

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• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Discipline, Stories, Nonfiction

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• The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

  Allen Klein

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Way, Causes

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• I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

  Henry Kravis

  Years, Ties, Selling

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• The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Historical, Fiction

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• I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

  Tommy Lee

  Crush, Band, Mixtures

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• Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

  Annie Lennox

  Compassion, Empathy, Brutality

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• And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

  Dan Lipinski

  Home, Energy, Needs

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• I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Actresses, Incredibles, Amazing Woman

  "Lindsay actually *is* going to be in that Liz Taylor movie or whatever!" by Vince Mancini, www.uproxx.com. April 23, 2012.

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• If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Simple, Community, Want

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

  Simon Mainwaring

  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

  John Major

  Middle East, Bottles, Genies

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• From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

  Jon Meacham

  Thinking, Inspire, One Day

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• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Vocabulary, White, Spirit

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• I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

  Michael Moore

  Sacrifice, Giving, Offers

  "My New Year’s Resolutions" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

  Steven Morrissey

  Important, British Monarchy, Useless

  "Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

  Christopher Nolan

  Kids, Blade Runner, Fans

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• Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Editing, Rooms, Manipulation

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