Quotes with small

Quotes 341 till 360 of 475.

  • Bille August The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Angela Davis The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Vaclav Havel The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bernie Sanders The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Stanley Kubrick The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aesop The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Walter Bagehot The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bill Rancic The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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