Quotes with small-scale

Quotes 201 till 220 of 533.

  • Gloria Steinem If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • James Phillips If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.
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  • Napoleon Hill If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Bryson If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • George Orwell If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anita Roddick If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Bill Hader In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bertil Ohlin In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bjork In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Gamaliel Bradford In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
    Gamaliel Bradford
    American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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  • Titus Livy In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Oscar Wilde In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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