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• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Jobs, School, Light

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• The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Holocaust, Important

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• After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Michele Bachmann's response to State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Mother, Equality, Church

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• Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

  Beth Ditto

  Nice, Home, Thinking

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• The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Movie, Stars, Space

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• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Cities, United States

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

  David Suzuki

  Drinking, Water, Toxic

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• Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Thinking, Ugly

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Victory, President, Groups

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• This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

  Carly Fiorina

  Eye, Opportunity, World

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• It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Light, Together, Weight

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• I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, People, Achievement

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• A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur

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• I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Years, Grew Up

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• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mother, Games, Ships

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• Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Past, Church

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.46, Seven Stories Press

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• Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

  Kenny Rogers

  Flirting, Makeup, Nations

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• Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

  Rolf Potts

  Inspirational, Travel, Long

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, War, Hero

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• In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

  Kofi Annan

  Our World, Eras, Poverty

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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Kings, Pride, Pyramids

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• All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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