Enormous Quotes - Page 19

• The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Writing, Issues, Abortion

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• Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Independent, Thinking, Government

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• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  Apolo Ohno

  Skating, Weight, Legs

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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Years, Feminist

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• To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

  Sarah Palin

  Cutting, Government, Mind

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

  Steven Pinker

  Moon, Atoms, Ciphers

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• We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

  Zachary Quinto

  Government, Culture, World

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

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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• Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

  Pat Robertson

  Children, Health, Responsibility

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• If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

  Christina Romer

  Educational, America, Goal

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  Salman Rushdie

  World Religions, Historical, Islam

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• I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

  Richard Russo

  Numbers, Firsts, Novel

  "Russo: Novelist, fan of first books". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.boston.com. October 9, 2011.

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• It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Past

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• Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Iran, Effort

  "Ariel Sharon's address to the Knesset", www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

  Wallace Shawn

  Eye, Appetite, Knows

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

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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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• Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Immaturity, Church

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  Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rock N Roll, Adults, Answers

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

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• Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Struggle, Bridges

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Climbing

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• Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

  John Keats

  'Hyperion: A Fragment' (1820) bk. 3, l. 113

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• American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Achievement, Journalism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.95, Knopf

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• Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Moments

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lonely, Empathy, Humanity

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.46, Vintage

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