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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

Dreams, Time, Stupid

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Nose, Liberal, Generous

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum

Peace, Others, Moral

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Ronnie James Dio

Education, Work, Family

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie

Trust, Money, Nobody

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 own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

Health, History, Control

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.
Kim Kardashian

Dancing, Shy, Front

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace, Live, Friendly

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
Max Muller

Old, Far, Church

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

Children, Small, Problem

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind, Minds, Leave

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan

Fight, Person, Reason

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.
Kristen Stewart

Scary, Crap, Groups

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
Charles Caleb Colton

Small, Shoes, Cause

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
Paul Ryan

Government, Choice, Public

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift

Nature, May, Short

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles Lamb

Book, Give, Before

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

Ordinary, Forces, Discovered

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Tom Stoppard

Philosophy, Between, Whole

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 a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
David Bowie

Work, Time, Long

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald

Enough, Wish, Light

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White

Sad, Happy, Today

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Art, Give

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
Jerry Saltz

Down, Around, Another

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Great, Art

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz

Change, Art, Big

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Al Gore

Strength, Truth, Courage

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden

God, Friendly, Rich

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
Taylor Swift

Fear, Why, Front

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Robin Williams

Country, Once, Ice

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