Majors Quotes - Page 24

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

Fred Savage

Writing, School, Thinking

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

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I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader and the Emperor by himself. If you get a sense that Yoda or Ben is there to help him or to somehow influence him, it diminishes the power of the scene.

George Lucas

Fighting, Issues, Helping

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For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Giancarlo Esposito

Thinking, Trying, Heal

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I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

Terry Wogan

Song, Mistake, Thinking

"'Please don't ask me to take it seriously': Terry Wogan's Eurovision quotes" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

Tori Spelling

Morning, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

James Levine

Needs, Generations, Upheaval

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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

Valerie Bertinelli

Goal, Lap, Want

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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Independent, Class, Literature

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I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Brian May

Creativity, Animal, Months

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I support the Ryan budget plan. I think it’s the right direction on the major points. I can’t say I’ve read all of it, but on the major thrust of what he’s doing, I support what he wants to do with Medicare, Medicaid. The only thing I would do, frankly, as I’ve said publicly many times, I think we should implement a lot of these things sooner than what he’s suggesting.

Rick Santorum

Thinking, Support, Want

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If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.

Rick Santorum

Country, Thinking, Media

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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

Carl Sagan

Prophet, Subtle, Bigger

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond the blue-haired old ladies in the stalls. Im going to keep working on the integration of film and video technology.

David Soul

Moving, Technology, Blue

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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Thinking, Talking, Ideas

"The brilliance of Sacha Baron Cohen" by Harry Phibbs, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

Colin Powell

Mom, Cousin, New York

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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Walter M. Fitch

Science, People, Research

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Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

Huntington Willard

Cancer, Lying, Heart

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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

King Hussein I

Religious, Teaching, Religion

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For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

Ezra Taft Benson

Integrity, Patriotic, Past

Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Mignon McLaughlin

Integrity, Vices, Ethics

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true among exercisers at all levels, despite their different goals. A major element in mental training is visualization ... Visualizing a positive outcome can create a pattern of success, as long as you set realistic and specific goals.

Grete Waitz

Inspirational, Sports, Exercise

Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.

Amby Burfoot

Running, Believe, Adventure

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My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

Doug Flutie

Daughter, Mother, New York

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My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

Nick Cassavetes

Daughter, Mother, Heart

Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded.

Corinne Heline

Inspiration, Order, Civilization

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