Grandiose Quotes - Page 4

• [People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

  Michelle Goldberg

  Men, Self, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

  Helen Mirren

  Play, Voice, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fashion, Regret, Writing

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts." They are very theatrical, always - the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, "United" and "American" flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Numbers, Tragedy, Aftermath

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Ideas, Wish

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• We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Government, Bridges

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• The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not everyone shares that same opinion, but when I'm writing songs or working on lyrics or coming up with an idea, I think about videos as I'm in the studio. If I had all the money in the world, I would have the most amazing videos ever, you know? You're saying grandiose, and big; if the song warrants it, I try to push the visuals as far as I can.

  Tamaryn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Trying

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.154, Routledge

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• Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Religious, Moving

  "Buzz Aldrin On 'In The Shadow Of The Moon'". Q&A with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. September 6, 2007.

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• The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.

  Albert Ellis

  Mean, Goal, Wish

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• I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Philosophy, Book

  "Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Block, Fog

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• The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

  Werner Herzog

  Splendor, Creation, Stellar

  "Herzog: Ecstatic Truths - A Werner Herzog Documentary Retrospective". mubi.com. March 31, 2016.

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