Quotes with big-picture

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie To die will be an awfully big adventure.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Mary Baker Eddy To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carlos Salinas Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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  • Bobby Vinton Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Arlene Francis Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Denis Waitley Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Robert Collier Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Bruce Jackson War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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