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• I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

  Zayn Malik

  Past, One Direction, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Walks, Streets, Stills

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.

  Steve Kroft

  Years, Leader, Political

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

  Lindsey Graham

  Technology, Years, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

  David Brooks

  People, Goal, Guy

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Issues, Long

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• It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Fans, Sugar

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• If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Kings, Body, Want

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, America, Maintaining

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• No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

  Alex Kapranos

  Impact, Trying, Matter

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

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• Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

  Aphex Twin

  Wells, Moved, My Own

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Revenge, Penance, Why Not

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Trying, Honest

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• I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really.

  Sharon Horgan

  Cat, Car, Way

  "This much I know". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Guitar, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  Calvin Harris

  Gone, Breakfast, Buffets

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• I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.

  Lee Westwood

  Tired, Mean, Differences

  "Leaner and meaner". Interview with Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

  Julia Phillips

  People, Soul, Hollywood

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• All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Fate, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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• It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

  Glenn Beck

  Yesterday, Campaigns, Littles

  "Beck likened Gore to Nazi propagandist, let Inhofe distort his climate change testimony". "CNN Headline News" with Glenn Beck, www.mediamatters.org. March 22, 2007.

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• Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, War, Mean

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

  Henry Rollins

  Humility, People, Amount

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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