Minors Quotes - Page 6

• I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thinking, Hands, Rest Of Your Life

  "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

  Jeff Perry

  Character, Actors, Aspect

  "‘Scandal’ Star Jeff Perry On the Duality of Cyrus and Why He Loves Not Knowing Where the Show Will Go Next". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

  A. S. Byatt

  Lying, Book, Air

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• I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

  David Henry Hwang

  Growing Up, Hair, Chinese

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• Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.

  Ron Santo

  Morning, Player, Games

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• If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

  Ryne Sandberg

  League, Want, Majors

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• In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

  Honore de Balzac

  Silence, Mind, Facts

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• Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it.
  When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out.
  If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it.
  Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

  Alan Cohen

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• Small acts can drive reforms. What appears minor can actually be vital and fundamental. Generating 20,000 MW of power attracts a lot of attention. That is important. At the same time, 20,000 MW of power can be saved through a people's movement for energy efficiency. The second is more difficult but is as important as the first. Small indeed, is beautiful.

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, Small Acts, People

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• Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Running, Spiritual

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• I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Thinking, Keys, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.

  Josh Garrels

  Song, Keys, Choices

  Source: stereosubversion.com

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• You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

  Richard Bach

  Matter, Sun, Form

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

  Willie McCovey

  Cocky, League, Sound

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• What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Communication, Government

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

  Ty Cobb

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Communication, Successful, Yawning

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• I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Player, Years, Games

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• I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Team, Issues, Race

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• Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

  Stanley Morison

  Typography, Civilized, Technicalities

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• I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

  Harry S. Truman

  President, Important, Doctrine

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• Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs.

  Narendra Modi

  Jobs, Government, People

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• It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Writing, Keys, People

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• We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Failing, Convince, Majors

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• I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Keys, Emphasis

  Source: genius.com

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