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• I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Feet, People, Pounds

  "Q&A: Chris Hemsworth on fame, Thor and 'Heart of the Sea'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.cnsnews.com. December 7, 2015.

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• Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gay, Sarcasm, Air

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dancer, Becoming, Enough

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

  Sophia Loren

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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• You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

  Greg Giraldo

  Feet, What If, Cop

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• Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.

  Lynda Carter

  Usa, Careers, People

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dwarves, Somewhere Else, Giants

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• The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Live Life, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Unions, Slave

  Calvin Trillin (1992). “Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life”, Mariner Books

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• Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

  Danny Kaye

  Love You, Heart, Differences

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• For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

  Ruth Westheimer

  Feet, People, Height

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

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• Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

  Wendy Williams

  Black, Painful, Bigs

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• Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

  Rod McKuen

  Flower, Butterfly, Thinking

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

  Louis Sullivan

  Rising, Lines, Proud

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• John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

  Jim Cummings

  Wind Blowing, Voice, Comforting

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Holiday, Winter

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

  Naomi Grossman

  Feet, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, "Oh well, she works."

  Liana Liberato

  Years, Body, Faces

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Because criminals know that when they see a house with 2 foot tall grass, a dog on a chain, and an engine hanging from a tree, a gun lives in that house. And if you want to know what kind, just break in at 2 in the morning.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Morning, Gun

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• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

  Vera Nazarian

  Cutting, Water, Grass

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• This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

  Neil Young

  Tree, World, Wonder

  Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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