Massive Quotes - Page 34

• A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

  Robert Gilpin

  Taken, Wealth, Increase

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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• The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Debt, World, Administration

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.362, Princeton University Press

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• It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

  Steven M. Greer

  Football, Light, Feet

  "Reach Out And Touch ... An Extraterrestrial". St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 08, 1993.

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• I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Character, Order, Survival

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• Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Confidence, Artist, Vote

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• The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

  Edward Kennedy

  Death, Science, Nuclear Disarmament

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Spring, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life-different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability-mingle so freely.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Lifestyle Choices, Race, Class

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.6, Vintage

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• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

  Hilda Doolittle

  Cities, Venice, Gold

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.556, New Directions Publishing

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Home, Boys

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

  Dhani Harrison

  Love, Teenager, Prodigies

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

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• When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Sadness, Men, Paris

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

  George J. Mitchell

  Relationship, Sports, Brother

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• If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

  Bruce Sterling

  Military, World, Politics

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• Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Latin, Book

  Andy Greenwald (2003). “Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo”, p.1, Macmillan

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• I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Leader, Rewards

  "John Glenn, a pioneering former US astronaut, has died" by Dave Mosher and Reuters, www.businessinsider.com. December 8, 2016.

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• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, Fire, Heaven

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• The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.

  Joe De Sena

  Running, Pain, Distance

  Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• And I quote, Michael Cole is still a massive tool!

  Edge

  Wwe, Tools, Stills

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Sunday, Bye

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

  Debby Ryan

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  "Debby Ryan's Winter Fashion And Beauty Tips". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. November 8, 2012.

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• I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fans, Singers, Stuff

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• Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

  Conor Maynard

  Fun, Events, Stylist

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

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