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You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what… — Zooey Deschanel
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates… — Margot Anand
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose… — Ludwig von Mises
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds… — Paul Krugman
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene. — Andrew van der Bijl
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story. — Jean Houston
Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know… — Gordon R. Sullivan
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul… — George Eliot
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.… — Isabella Rossellini
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government… — Randolph Bourne
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to… — Barack Obama
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. — Walt Whitman
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… — John Donne
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else… — Jacob Bronowski
I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I… — Doc Pomus
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is… — Archibald MacLeish
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them… — Unknown Author
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans. — Conan O'Brien
Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV. — Camryn Manheim
I've had my own moments in front of designers when I've actually said, 'You know, there's a market here for expanding your work, and here… — Tim Gunn

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