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A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold. — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.' — Paul Sorvino Copy Share Image
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving. — Angel Cabrera Copy Share Image
'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible. — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
I've been largely undecided about everything for most of my life. I can barely commit to a phone bill... Somewhere along the… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior. — Adam Ostrow Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know,… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. — Mian Muhammad Mansha Copy Share Image