Majors Quotes - Page 2

• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Competition, Theatre, Popcorn

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• Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

  Linus Pauling

  Cancer, Health, Organization

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• In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Government, Years, Creating

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• Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Believe, People

  "History and the Decline of Human Violence". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

  Sean Penn

  Giving, Want, Loan

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Intellectual, Culture

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. 15 October 2011.

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• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

  Leon Panetta

  War, Fall, Cutting

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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, "Ingenue", March 1996.

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• I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Done, Way

  "New Again: Sigourney Weaver". Interview with Christopher Durang, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Self, Ebay

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Happiness, Men, Cheerful

  'Diary' 13 October 1660

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• The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

  Chris Pratt

  Teacher, Thinking, Bridesmaids

  "The Very Busy Chris Pratt on Preparing for Moneyball, Goofing in What's Your Number? and Ten Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

  Vera Wang

  Art, New York, School

  "Bridget Foley’s Diary: Vera’s Vision". Interview with Bridget Foley, wwd.com. June 3, 2013.

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• When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Differences, Editors

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Missing, Perception

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

  William Perry

  Sports, Bragging Rights, America

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• There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Unions, Has Beens

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• I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

  Lou Reed

  Beer, Cities, Goes On

  "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

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• I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

  Emma Watson

  Scary, Acting, Very Famous

  "Emma Watson In ‘Marie Claire’: Talks Working Childhood, ‘Protective’ College Classmates", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Organization, Political

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  Rachel Weisz

  Stories, Literature, Narrative

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2009.

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• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  Orson Welles

  College, Pie, Today

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• We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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