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I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.
Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.
The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.
The rush into scripted video by tech giants is going to accelerate an evolution of entertainment that's already underway. We're already moving away from the idea that drama is a 60-minute exercise with four bathroom breaks.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.
You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.
I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.
AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on. And while many of the tech giants working on AI, like Google and Facebook, have open-sourced some of their algorithms, they hold back most of their data.
I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.
I always want to take on the giants.
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.
As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.