Scales Quotes - Page 38

• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Devastation

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 6, 2005.

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• When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spirit, Emotion, Holy

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• I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Paint

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• People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  "Philosophy and The Wealth of Nations, PJ O'Rourke". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. April 25, 2009.

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• Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

  Suze Orman

  Balance, Each Month, Cards

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• Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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

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• The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

  Steven Pinker

  Impact, Mind, Strikes

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• Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

  Steven Pinker

  Climate, Scarcity, Waste

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  Brad Pitt

  Design, Furniture, Architecture

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  Samantha Power

  Military, Feelings, Lasts

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• An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

  Josh Radnor

  Fall, Dysfunction, Attention

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

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• I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

  Keanu Reeves

  Important, Able, Different

  "Reeves, Keanu (Constantine)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. February 10, 2005.

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• On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Meaningful, World, Life Is

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• During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

  Julia Roberts

  Struggle, Simple, 80s And 90s

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• On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Skills

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• Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  Will Self

  Confused, Eye, Futility Of Life

  "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, Powerful, Heart

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