Size Quotes - Page 36

• Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

  Billy Barty

  Trying, Restroom

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• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Thinking, Sea, People

  "What's in your basket, Gael García Bernal?" by Morwenna Ferrier and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!

  Ice Cube

  Ice, Balls, Cubes

  Song: Go To Church, Album: Laugh Now, Cry Later

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• I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Healthy, Proud, Actresses

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• There are three versions of the hook. There's one that's solid metal and it's really heavy. It's sharp. It's not super sharp but it has a point, and because of the weight you could do some serious damage with it. And then there's an aluminium one which is a bit lighter, and then there's a rubber one for if you're to do stunts or there's any danger of cutting someone. Although sometimes I like to switch it out! It's the perfect coffee cup holder - it's literally the exact size. And if you've only got one hand and you're holding some food, it's great to put it on.

  Colin O'Donoghue

  Coffee, Cutting, Hands

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• My body has changed and it will continue change in the future — that is natural for anyone. What matters to me most is that even though external change is inevitable, my passion for encouraging women to love themselves at any size and to live, thrive, and to go after their dreams is a part of my permanent nature. Even though my body and mind may evolve through life and experience, my values on this matter have not.

  Crystal Renn

  Dream, Passion, What Matters

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• There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Dog, Beach

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• As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

  Ayya Khema

  Long, People, Ego

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Brother, Character, Interesting

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

  Richard Adams

  Cutting, Strange, Staring

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Cutting, Practice, Political

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• I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP - gross national product - over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Years, Numbers

  "Interest Groups Are Suiting Up for Tax Cut Battle" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. March 11, 2001.

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• If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cat, Pet, Double Standard

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Shoes, Feet

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• You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Jobs, People

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

  Randall Munroe

  Cities, Labs, Faces

  Randall Munroe (2014). “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement.

  Michael Chekhov

  Self, Two, Expansion

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• The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Cutting, Men, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.196, Routledge

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• As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, People, Quality

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• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Libertarian, Bureaucracy

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

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• I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

  Tyra Banks

  Real, Labels, Use

  "Tyra Banks: I Don’t Like The Label ‘Plus-Size’" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

  Meg Whitman

  Business, California, Regulation

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and -
  cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

  Ken Buck

  Cutting, Government, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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