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Scale shows up everywhere, literally and figuratively.

Quotes on "big" span genuine fandom, like enthusiasm for horror films and reality TV, alongside more personal reflection on physical stature and the drive to feel powerful. For quotes about drive itself, see Ambition quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Exhibit
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Nov 07, 2020

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

Quotes by John Sweeney

Nov 07, 2020

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

Quotes by John Simm

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Quotes by John Simm

Nov 07, 2020

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

Quotes by John Spratt

Discretionary
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Nov 07, 2020

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Quotes by John Spratt

Breakfast
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Nov 07, 2020

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

John Steinbeck

Experience
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Nov 07, 2020

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

Quotes by John Sculley

Getting
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Nov 07, 2020

Getting big is just a byproduct of getting better.

Quotes by John Schnatter

Nov 07, 2020

Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.

Quotes by John Ross Bowie

Because
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Nov 07, 2020

I got recognized on the subway in South Africa because of 'Big Bang.'

Quotes by John Ross Bowie

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go through that again.

Quotes by John Rzeznik

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

Philadelphia is a big market. We're going to operate the team like it's in a big market. We've got a very good contract with Comcast for our local TV. We're going to be aggressive when it's appropriate to be aggressive.

Quotes by John S. Middleton

Emerged
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Nov 07, 2020

The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out of that. And those heavier elements are reconstituted in the heart of other stars, eventually.

Quotes by John Rhys-Davies

Sitting
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Nov 07, 2020

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Quotes by John Ridley

Nov 07, 2020

Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.

Quotes by John Pritzker

Communion
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Nov 07, 2020

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

Nov 07, 2020

The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Quotes by John Perkins

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

Quotes by John Perkins

Change
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Nov 07, 2020

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

Quotes by John P. Kotter

One entry takes a more factual turn, describing a country's population, industrial base, and resources in matter-of-fact terms. Related pages include Power quotes and Presence quotes.

Big Quotes

Scale shows up everywhere, literally and figuratively.

One entry takes a more factual turn, describing a country's population, industrial base, and resources in matter-of-fact terms. Related pages include Power quotes and Presence quotes.

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