Chunks Quotes:

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

- Jeri Ryan

topic: Believe, Population, Chunks

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Perseverance, Jobs, Writing, Chunks, Gems

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

- Neal Barnard

topic: Children, Meat, Vegan, Chunks, Vegan Diet

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

- Liam Neeson

source: "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

topic: Pie, Dry, Littles, Graphs, Chunks

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

- Brian Tracy

source: Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

topic: People, Important, Unbroken, Chunks

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

- Abba Kovner

topic: Experience, World, Want, Chunks

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

- Billy Bob Thornton

source: "Billy Bob Thornton Talks JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR, Getting Back in the Director’s Chair, BAD SANTA 2, FX’s FARGO Miniseries, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Couple, Moving, Darts, Chunks

The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

- Max Fisher

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Horse, War, Technology, Chunks, Mongols

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

- Billy Joe Shaver

source: Song: I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal

topic: Coal, Someday, Diamond, Chunks

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

- Earl Thomas

topic: Greatness, Life Is, Bigs, Chunks

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

- Jay Baruchel

topic: Play, Chunks

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

topic: Photography, Reality, Facts, Uncontrollable, Framing

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

- Karl Pilkington

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Pineapples, Baths, Wells, Chunks

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

- Mona Simpson

source: Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage

topic: Forever, World, Chunks

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Race, Law, African American, Chunks

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Oil, Russian Economy, Way, Chunks, Ussr

I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: time.com

topic: Winning, Reality, Thinking, Chunks

A big chunk of [Donald] Trump's tax cut would go to businesses.

- Kelly McEvers

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Cutting, Bigs, Trump, Chunks

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work

- Connie Chung

topic: Morning, Taken, School, Chunks

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

- Bryan Cranston

source: ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

topic: Play, Speech, Panic, Chunks

Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

- William Kristol

topic: Senior, Country, Military, Chunks, Tax Cuts

Look at what Hillary Clinton did in Libya with Gadhafi. Gadhafi's out. It's a mess. And, by the way, ISIS has a good chunk of their oil. I'm sure you probably have heard that. It was a disaster.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Isis, Oil, Looks, Chunks

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

- M. L. Stedman

source: M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Thinking, Done, Sometimes In Life, Chunks

As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Thinking, Long, Majority, Chunks

To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Past, America, Giving, Past Wrongs, Chunks

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Writing, Whales, Stories, Chunks

For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

- Marvin Olasky

source: "Christian Right Says Ayn Rand Could Split GOP" by Eric Sapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

topic: Religious, Home, White, Chunks

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

- Antoinette Bosco

topic: Cake, Giving, Asking, Chunks

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

- Peter Lynch

topic: Cds, Investing, Today, Chunks

When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of course, if you know what will happen, you can succeed at doing it, so an athlete in flow has a stand-out game.

- Kevin Maney

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Moving, Athlete, Thinking, Chunks

Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Godly, Chunks

Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.

- Kevin Maney

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Hockey, People, Brain, Chunks, Gretzky

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

- Holly Lisle

topic: Memories, Writing, Cutting, Chunks, Rework

I struggle with depression and anxiety, and I have since I was a teenager. I spent a good chunk of time being very ashamed of that. Now I feel committed to talking about it and trying to normalize it as much as I can.

- Morgan Parker

source: "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

topic: Teenager, Struggle, Talking, Depression And Anxiety, Chunks

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Thinking, People, Secret, Chunks, Tugging

Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

topic: Jobs, Doe, Generations, Student Loan, Chunks

Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production, post and now the release. Not that I have people banging on my door to star in movies, but it takes me out of the acting game for a longer chunk of time.

- David Schwimmer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Chunks, Seven Years

I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.

- Louie Anderson

topic: Chunks

What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Humanity, Way To Live, Term, Chunks, Define Success

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Fun, Nice, Average, Nice People, Chunks

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Chunks, Monotheism

Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

- Agyness Deyn

topic: Chunks

One simple step firms can take is make sure that people that are getting paid a lot of money, say more than a million or two, that a big chunk of that money is deferred. That's going to change the whole ballgame.

- Richard Thaler

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Chunks, Ballgame

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Running, Falling In Love, Swimming, Chunks, Staggering

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.

- Karel Appel

source: "Karel Appel's excerpt", c. 1953.

topic: Children, Passion, Night, Chunks

Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.

- Peter Buffett

source: "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

topic: Milwaukee, Omaha, Chunks

Put in every joke that's not a dud and then let's just start pulling the ones that work the least. You're just constantly sifting until you're left with the biggest chunks of gold. The audience also tells you what some of those chunks are. You can have your own favorites, and then, once you screen it for an audience, the audience tells you what they're entertained by. I feel like that's a big part of it.

- Jason H. Moore

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Gold, Sifting, Bigs, Chunks

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Book, Self, Rejection, Rejection Letters, Hassle

I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Daughter, School, Kids, Chunks

The people of Michigan and the people of our country - we have lost our industries, such a big chunk of our industries and our jobs, and I'm not going to let that happen. It won't happen anymore, believe me.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Country, Jobs, Believe, Chunks