Massive Quotes - Page 25

• Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

  David Berlinski

  Graffiti, Legacy, Logic

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.

  Roy Scheider

  Believe, Assessment, Views

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• In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

  Rick Warren

  Years, Leader, Training

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• Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Important, Steps

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• Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Giants

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Swings, Two

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.19, Vintage

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• There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

  Jimmy Somerville

  Balls, Glitter

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• Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

  Steve Aylett

  Butterfly, Wings, World

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• We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

  Bruce Davison

  America, Issues, News

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• The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Islamic, Adventure

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

  Neve Campbell

  Nice, Creative, Sitting

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• What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Wise, Courage, Caring

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Survival

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• Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain.

  Stan Moore

  Weed, Pain, Opportunity

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• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Tom Tancredo

  Party, Important, Immigration

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Thinking, Hands

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• Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something and you're fairly convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

  Damon Lindelof

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  "The Lost Creators Come Clean". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. May 7, 2014.

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• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Growth, Usual

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• The greatest revenge is massive success.

  Les Brown

  Revenge

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• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

  Nick Frost

  Family And Friends, Would Be, Montana

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. October 25, 2005.

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• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  Felix Dennis

  Art, Media, America

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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• Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

  John Yoo

  Mean, Wmd, Goal

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• I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

  Robbie Williams

  Morning, Lazy, World

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