Shrinking Quotes - Page 5

• If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Intelligent, Years

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is a shrinking percentage of the American population. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a growing disconnect between our military and civilian population. At one time, we had participation from nearly every American. Victory gardens, metal collections, saving stamps and bonds-everyone did their part to support our military. We simply don't do that anymore.

  Don Young

  Military, Reality, Men

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• Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Years, Two

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter III, Section 2,

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• After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

  Mason Cooley

  Moments, Grotesque

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• It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Knowing, Wind

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 09, 2015

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• Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  White, Challenges, Faces

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• The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Labor Force, People, Age

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

  Michael Hudson

  Writing, Debt, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, People, Growth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I say the economy is shrinking, it's the economy of the 99%, the people who have to work for a living and depend on earning money for what they can spend. The 1% makes its money basically by lending out their money to the 99%, on charging interest and speculating. So the stock market's doubled, the bond market's gone way up, and the 1% are earning more money than ever before, but the 99% are not. They're having to pay the 1%.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Gone, Pay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Hymns, Singing

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

  Al Gore

  Groups, Global Warming, Rage

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview With Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.

  Zig Ziglar

  Problem, Bigger, Grows

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• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Our World, Toxins

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• There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Dream, Beauty Everywhere, Ease

  Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador

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• Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Loneliness, First Love, Worry

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

  Dick Schaap

  Art, Aggravation, Hype

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• I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

  Edith Cavell

  Strange, No Fear, Fearful

  Edith Cavell's last statements prior to her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, www.firstworldwar.com. 1923.

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• With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

  Arthur Laffer

  Classic, Economy, More Money

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

  Rick Bayan

  Childhood, Drug, Weapons

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• When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Europe, Argentina, World

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