Size Quotes - Page 38

• If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Romance, Trying

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• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Political, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.35, Crown Business

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• Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

  L'Wren Scott

  Sexy, Age, Looks

  "Remembering L'Wren Scott: Original, Strong and Brave" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 18, 2014.

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• I'm grateful people think I'm beautiful or sexy, and I suppose it's better than the alternative, but I do try to fight it a bit so it's not all people see me as. And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size.

  Katherine Heigl

  Beautiful, Sexy, Grateful

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• I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

  Kristen Johnston

  Feet, People, Anorexia

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• It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mistake, Growth, Problem

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• The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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• Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

  Sarah Palin

  Example, Needs, Looks

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• If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.

  Bernard Lewis

  Israel, Long, Serious

  Bernard Lewis (2010). “Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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• It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jobs, Lifts

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• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

  Doc Watson

  Matter, Too Much, Halls

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• The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.

  John Holdren

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million

  Gary Miller

  United States, Population, January

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• Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

  Jerry Falwell

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Significance

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• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

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• The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Integrity, Issues, Degrees

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• Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Kindness, Regret

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• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.

  Adele

  Sex, Pie, Upset

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• I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

  Janet Flanner

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.

  Mats Wilander

  Sports, Heart, Champion

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Artist, Garden, Lines

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• God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

  Billy Graham

  Humility, People, Achievement

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Respect

  Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

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