Size Quotes - Page 17

• I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

  Joel Silver

  Cleveland, Want, Explosions

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

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• There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Color, Shoes

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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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• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Heart, Spirit, Comedy

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• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  Eliot Spitzer

  People, Desire, Challenging The Status Quo

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• A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

  Laurence Sterne

  Dwarves, Standards, Articles

  Laurence Sterne (1851). “Works of Laurence STerne; Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., A Sentimental Journay Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c”, p.193

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• When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

  Cat Stevens

  Religious, Space, Earth

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• You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Patience, Integrity, Character

  "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

  Adora Svitak

  Juniors, Matter, Messages

  "Would You Buy This for Your Daughter?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Cities, United States

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

  James Taylor

  Impact, Long, Age

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

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• The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

  Juno Temple

  Independent, Technology, Gadgets

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• I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

  Helen Thomas

  Blow, Thinking, President

  "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, Space, House

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Communication, Bad Day, Energy

  "Cosmic Coincidence: Asteroid Careens by as Meteor Delivers ‘Buzz Cut’ to Earth". www.pbs.org. February 15, 2013.

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• By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

  Peter Ustinov

  Doors, Today, Danger

  Christian Science Monitor, 1962.

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• This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

  Tom Vilsack

  Years, Agriculture, Income

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Life Is Short, Ideas

  "Thank You and You're Welcome". Book by Kanye West and J. Sakiya Sandifer, 2009.

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• Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

  Robbie Williams

  Blow, Drug, Judgement

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• You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

  Serena Williams

  Beautiful

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• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  E. O. Wilson

  Simple, Brain, Mazes

  "Ants and Answers: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Space, Mind

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  Kate Winslet

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Interview to Marie Claire magazine, April, 2009.

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