Size Quotes - Page 16

• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Broken, Band

  "The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

  Susie Orbach

  Criticism, Today, Moral

  "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

  Patton Oswalt

  Judging, Different, Rooms

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• We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

  Carre Otis

  Differences, Support, Different

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• Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

  Carre Otis

  Mean, Long, Watching Tv

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• I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

  Carre Otis

  Thinking, Two, Want

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• Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

  Mehmet Oz

  Half, Height, Should

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• Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

  Sarah Palin

  Top Down, Government, Common Sense

  "Palin gets tough on Democrats' health care proposals" by Alex Mooney, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Bigs, Closets, Disappointed

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Today, Aviation

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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• America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

  Rick Perry

  Heart, Greatness, Government

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• Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

  Chris Pine

  Jobs, New Job, Scared

  "Chris Pine’s life lessons". Interview with Ryan Bailey, www.menshealth.co.uk. January 17, 2016.

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• Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

  Pink

  Rights, Long, Attention

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• Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers…for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

  Amy Poehler

  Funny, Kids, Names

  "Amy Poehler: The Seriously Funny Interview". Interview with Joel Keller, www.thedailybeast.com. April 9, 2009.

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• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Political, Voting

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

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• All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

  Samuel Richardson

  Views, Years, Childhood

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.960, Simon and Schuster

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Different, Massachusetts

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. April 13, 2011.

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• In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Gdp, Government

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Numbers, Space

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• I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Yelling, Balance

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• You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Dream, Inspiration

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• As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Cutting, Government, President

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

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Agency, Play, Mma

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

  Andres Segovia

  Dog, Taken, Men

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