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“Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success”

Knows Want Bigs Today Young Artist Successful Influence Sweet Destruction Pressure Being Successful Magnificent Pulling Verge

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.”

Stories Shows Bigs Kids Today Young Forget Missing Humour Destruction Presses Noses Sat Interviews Covered Editors Legends Flood Reporters Journalistic Overlooking

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.”

Kind Self Bigs Spiritual Drama Ego Destruction Organization Self Destruction Upheaval

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.”

Wells Moments Helping Bigs Running Certain Literature Levels Risk Destruction Admire Compelling Threatening Humiliation Flirting Embarrassment

Author:Walter Kirn

“I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they call The Sacrifice Zones of America and report on the current state of our environmental calamity.”

Book States Bigs America Sacrifice Fans Destruction Environmental Currents Reports Zone Calamity Our Environment Revolt

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.”

Bigs Grows Destruction Organization Insane Rhythm Sects

Book:Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

“And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.”

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

Ifs Knows Mean Enough Bigs Found Realizing Lovers Destruction Inevitable

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”

Thinking Enough Hands Bigs Lasts Turns Space Forget Pleasure Flower Destruction Breaths Rounds Gentle Obsessed Weed Rejoice Brushes Gardener Reformers Sadistic

Author:Freya Stark

“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.”

“I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.”

Bigs Doubt Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Stores No Doubt Invasion Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Wmd Wmds In Iraq

Author:Kenneth Adelman