Plus Quotes - Page 5

• Tragedy plus time equals humor.

  Marie Osmond

  Tragedy

  "Exclusive interview: Marie Osmond’s incredible 20-hour work day, juggling dual roles as single mom to eight kids and performing as a Strip headliner". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegasweekly.com. September 15, 2008.

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

  Jimmy Heath

  Rich, Music Is, Selection

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• I love the plus (fashion) industry! It embraces a lot of women who would otherwise disappear into the background. I truly love what I do!

  Liris Crosse

  Fashion, Embrace, Disappear

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.

  Liris Crosse

  Work Out, Healthy, Lazy

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Plus models have personal trainers and go to college.We're not obese, or lazy, or stupid.

  Whitney Thompson

  Stupid, College, Lazy

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

  Whitney Thompson

  Average, Want, Succeed

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Dream, Top 10, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Years, Limited Time, Requirements

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Law, Numbers

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• I want to give credit where credit is due to Eric Radomski, who is the head of our production for Marvel Animation and who also happened to direct the pilot as well, has been the supervising producer on the show and has really been just looking at every single way that we can just plus up. This is a great-looking show.

  Jeph Loeb

  Giving, Eric, Credit

  Source: collider.com

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• Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

  John Green

  Girl, Breakup, Drama

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.174, Penguin

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• It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

  Tyra Banks

  Guy, Skinny, Nervous

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• Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

  Fareed Zakaria

  India, Weight, Today

  Interview with Michael Maiello, www.forbes.com. May 19, 2009.

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• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  Allen West

  Country, Years, Serious

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

  Allen West

  Mean, Florida, House

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  Ville Valo

  Expectations, Matter, Flow

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• The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Funny, Beauty, Nature

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority.

  Ashley Graham

  Majority, Size, Norm

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Home, America, Ministry

  Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Respect, Rocks, Looks

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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