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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandiose Quotes
Big ideas, examined honestly
Several quotes here reflect on grandiose national projects, from the scale of the Marshall Plan to describing America itself as history's boldest experiment. See more in America quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great Souls
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
- Marketing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, we don't have a grandiose marketing plan. We sell products that work, that we like.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Not to get too grandiose about it, but I really believe I'm saying things a lot of Americans want someone to say.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
- Nov 07, 2020
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020