Massive Quotes - Page 39

• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.

  Mitch Albom

  Real, Kids, Effort

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

  Paul Young

  Artist

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem to be, in many ways, to have been weakened or disappeared. And of course the beginning of the 21st century, I mean, you have - at one level you had massive social movements.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service industries, the closing down of educational opportunities, and the stripping of social protections from those marginalized by race and class has produced a generation without jobs, an independent life and even the most minimal social benefits.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Educational, Independent

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services. These demonstrations have and currently are being met with state-sanctioned violence and an almost pathological refusal to hear their demands.

  Henry Giroux

  Cutting, Issues, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.

  Donald Trump

  Dollars, World, Assets

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

  Steve Pavlina

  Energy, Willpower, Force

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• Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

  Frank Capra

  Guy, Individual, Paying Rent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

  Anna Friel

  Home, Vegetables, Important

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  School, Thinking, People

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• The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

  Wolfgang Sachs

  Would Be, Development, Experiments

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• The revolution of video had a massive affect. We grew up in a time where suddenly you could own films. Before, they had a theatrical run, and then perhaps they'd come back, or you'd catch them in a retro cinema.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Video, Cinema

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

  Edward Norton

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Worry, Political

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• If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Wall, Powerful

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Doctors, Lessons

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I'm still a massive fan of shoes.

  Lucy Pargeter

  Shoes, Fans, Stills

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

  Akbar Ganji

  Uprising, Squares, Azerbaijan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.

  Andrew McAfee

  Opportunity, Data, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, Immigration, Bills

  Source: www.univision.com

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• Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."

  Gary Shilling

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I believe in the platform of the Libertarian party, which is different from that of the other two parties and I believe that it would be good for the country if the Libertarians were - had a seat at the table to speak truth to power of the other two parties, which now have this monopoly in Washington. Having said that, I'm not taking back anything I said about the massive difference between the two establishment party candidates.

  William Weld

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Libertarian Party VP nominee Bill Weld basically just endorsed Hillary Clinton" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. November 2, 2016.

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