Mega Quotes - Page 3

• With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Age, Fame, Stressful

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. May 06, 1998.

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• I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Thinking, Way, Summit

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• Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

  Alfie Kohn

  Essence, Goal, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother.

  Nalini Singh

  Mother, Eye, Dark

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• I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

  Dave Eggers

  Foundation, Use, Stuff

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.

  Alyson Noel

  Real, Names, Next

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Conceited little mega-puppy.

  Douglas Adams

  Conceited, Littles, Puppy

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' I don't like the wood elves.' They're okay. They're misunderstood.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Misunderstood, Wizards

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Intellectual, Answers

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

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• He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?” I snicker. “Something funny here.” “You. All prickly and pissed ’cause there’s something you don’t know. Got to call on the megaservices of the Mega.” “Ever occur to you I’m using you for reasons your inferior human brain can’t begin to understand.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Giving, Brain

  "Iced: Fever Series". Book by Karen Marie Moning, October 30, 2012.

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• She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Gay, Reflection

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Natural Born Charmer”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Mergers, Said

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• The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Cost, Lines

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• For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Reality, Circles, Addiction

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• Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.

  Thomas Naylor

  Military, Responsibility, Government

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• My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

  Jessie J

  Ghetto, Style, Tacky

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

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• Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

  Colin Hanks

  Dad, Father, School

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

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• 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

  Eric Liu

  Christian, Purpose, Voters

  "Mad Libs" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2005.

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