Quotes with big-scale

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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Birch Bayh One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Bob Newhart One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Gore Vidal Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Bow Wow People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Billy Corgan People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Mae West Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bradley Cooper Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Plutarch Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Peggy Noonan Read good, big important things.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Davy Crockett Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Calvin Harris Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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