A Quote by Joe Klein

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

Joe Klein

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Joe Klein
American - Journalist
Born: September 7, 1946

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

Cat Stevens

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Joe Klein

There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.

Kurt Busiek

I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.

Justin Gaethje

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

Alan Tudyk

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Carrie Underwood

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

Don DeLillo

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

Nicole Krauss

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Mitt Romney

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

Lloyd Alexander

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Orson Scott Card

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

Jason Mraz

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

Jessica Savitch

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.

John Caird

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

Ursula Goodenough

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

John Howard

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