Gross Quotes - Page 2

• I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Scary, Cockroaches, Looks

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• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Odds, Differences

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• Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'

  Bill Gross

  Wife, Wives Love, Newspapers

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• Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

  Bill Gross

  Mean, Human Nature, Institutions

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

  Bob Newhart

  Humor, Thinking, Confusion

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• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Our World, Long

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

  Craig Reucassel

  Silence, Misinterpretation, Statements

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• I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

  Hilary Duff

  Flying, Trying, Mouths

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• I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

  Ivan Reitman

  Thinking, Way, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  Tara Reid

  Art, Tabasco, Bloody

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• In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  David Horowitz

  Ignorance, Practice, Psychology

  David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.162, Encounter Books

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• When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

  Megan Fox

  Kissing, Thinking, People

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

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• My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

  Errol Flynn

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Pain, Addiction, Smoking

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• People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Heart, Sarcasm

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

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• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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• The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Civilization, Environment

  Letter to J.B. McChesney, September 19, 1871.

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Awards, Pimples

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• Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

  Bennett Cerf

  Ignorance, Ordinary

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• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Future, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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