Millions Quotes - Page 40

• What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

  Prince Philip

  Singers, Awful, Classic

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• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

  Georges Simenon

  Communication, Two, People

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering of one single child, or more likely, millions is evidence against that belief. The one question I want to ask god: how do you explain or justify the suffering of a child?

  Melina Mercouri

  Children, Believe, Fall

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• Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

  Clay Shirky

  Weekend, Years, Ideas

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• I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

  Al Yankovic

  Art, Humble, Knows

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• The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire'and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'

  Richard Jeni

  Sex, Fire, People

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• America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!

  Richard Jeni

  America, Twenties, Aliens

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• Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

  Friedrich Ebert

  Song, Symbols, Nations

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• It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

  Edward Bernays

  Attitude, Men, Impossible

  Edward L. Bernays (1965). “Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel”

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• I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

  Esther Williams

  Feet, Air, Mermaid

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• Here are two facts that should not both be true:
  - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
  - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

  Michael Dorris

  Men, Years, Organization

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• The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.

  Avro Manhattan

  Wall, Catholic, Church

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• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

  Ike Skelton

  People, Research, Medical

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• As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.

  Eustace Mullins

  Government, Office, People

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• Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, Ideas, Titles

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• The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Pigs, Brave, Use

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• The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

  Franz von Papen

  Heart, Government, Fulfilled

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.

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• Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Too Much, Nutrition

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Grateful, Night

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

  Al Jardine

  Safe Haven, Thinking, California

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• I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

  Maddox

  Football, Real, Years

  "Ikaruga". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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