Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2379 authors
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We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for…
— David Bowie
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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
— Jeff Bridges
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
— Joyce Brothers
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I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball…
— Bill Bryson
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Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes…
— Bill Bryson
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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times…
— James Buchan
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000.…
— Anthony Burgess
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I…
— Madeleine Albright
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Burton
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My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.
— Jeb Bush
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
— David Byrne
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a…
— Vince Cable
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
— George Carlin
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its…
— Jimmy Carter
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight,…
— Charlie Chaplin
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