Overwhelming Quotes - Page 17

• It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

  Michel Gondry

  Country, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

  Stephin Merritt

  Car, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Believe, World, Outsiders

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for anything. I think it's more difficult in New York City. It's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. I don't own a car. It's chaos anywhere. Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Daughter, Kids, Son

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you gaze on something and you appreciate it, you become a part of that circle. That seemed to me to be the only relevance I could understand. The space, the time and the vastness of it all was overwhelming. I needed to understand it or I just was lost.

  Damian Loeb

  Father, Kids, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being immersed in the fashion world is very addicting. I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that.

  Selena Gomez

  Fashion, Stressed, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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• Our band tries and be as personable with fans as possible because up until the last two months it's been very bearable and easy to get to know fans on first name basis, especially the fans who come to multiple shows. Now its getting a little bit harder with new people and it's a little overwhelming so we're trying to strike the balance of being a very public band that establishes a relationship with the audience.

  Sameer Gadhia

  People, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Reality, Influence, Direct

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Band, Dinosaurs

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• We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Air, Isis

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

  Jeremy Jones

  Climbing, Snowboarding, Joy

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• I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

  Source: aalbc.com

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• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Team, Moving

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• [T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

  Al Gore

  Mistake, Important, Global Warming

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• There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Heart, Dark

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• Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weakness, Driving, Conviction

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• I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

  Zoe Kazan

  Self, Teens, Proud

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

  Richard A. Falk

  Political, Peaceful, Majority

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

  Justine Larbalestier

  Teens, Firsts, Wonderful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.

  Kevin Hart

  Believe, Emotional, Garden

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• We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Majority, Stories, Realistic

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.

  Crystal Renn

  Growing Up, Teaching, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Army, Air

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug, Tolls, Worst

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  Joe Bastianich

  Hate, Lazy, Different

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