Enormous Quotes - Page 29

• I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

  Emily M. Danforth

  Tree, Shadow, World

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• I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

  Maya Rudolph

  Writing, People, Facts

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

  Martha Plimpton

  Dog, Morning, Voters

  "Emmy Reactions: What the Nominated Stars and Execs Say". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2011.

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• As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Men

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• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

  John Hurt

  Order, Play, Sick

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• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  Wendie Malick

  Mother, People, Helping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear to protect her eyes from the sun for 4-6 weeks after the operation...twelve years ago. She still wears them. She thinks they're attractive. She looks like Bea Arthur as a welder.

  Judy Gold

  Mother, Eye, Thinking

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• Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

  Christine Baranski

  Men, Humanity, Lovely

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• As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Creative, Energy

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• Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

  Barbara Walters

  Challenges, Purpose, Bears

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• Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hatred, Suspicion, Has Beens

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Society Today, Comic, Today

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• It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

  Edward Burns

  Dream, Wall, Light

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 29, 2011

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• Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

  Michio Kaku

  Military, Moon, Phones

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• Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her...and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.

  Greg Kinnear

  Stars, Earth, Crowds

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• The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

  Polly Bergen

  Running, Years, Old Friends

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• Anyone who would ever think of using any other Realtor would be making an enormous mistake. Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the best real estate company with the best and smartest real estate agents and the best people to do business with!

  Andy Romano

  Real, Mistake, Thinking

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• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Memories, Slides

  Roger Ebert (1985). “A Kiss Is Still a Kiss”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

  Mary Quant

  Giving, Risk, Important

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• Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was crying and so was I and I tried to laugh it off but that turned into this enormous sob in front of everyone and I just thought, oh brilliant. I just found it terribly moving. Martin is just amazing in that last bit, it’s beautiful, that kind of incomprehension and devastation, it’s fantastic, with his sort of military shuffle at the grave. Fantastic.

  Louise Brealey

  Beautiful, Military, Moving

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• It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Sadness, Artist, Greatness

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• I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Eight, Years, Unemployment

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Persistence, Anchors

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.26, Random House

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• Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Long, May

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