Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you’re out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to. – Howie Mandel
The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy. – H. R. McMaster
I don’t even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them. – George Grosz
Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don’t matter are just like nothing. – Helen Mirren
After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that’s what he did to get rid of people. – Guy Ritchie
On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don’t consider myself an incredible director. I’m not ready to do movies by any means. But, I feel like I can be a better actress now that I’ve been on the other side and kind of understand the process and more of the technical aspects of it. – Hayley Kiyoko
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. – Hesiod
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets – Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time. – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can’t get access to credit. – Howard Schultz
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. – Haruki Murakami
I’m going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we’re doing with data has not changed; there’s just more of it. – Gurjeet Singh
I don’t see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn’t matter. – Genelia D’Souza
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don’t really care if it’s a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it’s got a story that’s compelling and there’s enough money to make the picture. – Griffin Dunne
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained. – Herman Kahn
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can’t understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses. – Haley Barbour
We would not have our country’s vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. – Henry Cabot Lodge
Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community. – Gabriel Luna
Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate – he says – down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn’t make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. – Grover Norquist
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. – Graydon Carter
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow. – Howard Stringer
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor. – Herschel Walker
For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk. – Glen Taylor
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. – Harry Houdini
Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta. – Herschel Walker
It’s nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it’s kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause. – Guy Lafleur
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular. – Howard Stringer
