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Letter "G" » grandiose
«Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.»
«You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.»
«We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.»
Author: Coleman Young
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
excitement, grandiose, propose, recapture, recaptured, vibrancy
«The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity.»
Author: Joshua Logan
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, agony, attractive, depression, elation, grandiose, sister, terrifying, twin
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
America, experiment, grandiose
«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.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
embryo, Embryos, exposed, grandiose, in embryo, paradox, paradoxes, pathos, thinker
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