Majors Quotes - Page 27

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

Gene Wolfe

Writing, Army, Thinking

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

Thinking, Jazz, Influence

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Edward R. Murrow

Men, Fire, Discovery

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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan

Years, Branches, Diaspora

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Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Paul Cellucci

Play, Roles, Canada

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American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

Kim Dae-jung

Balance, Causes, Stability

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But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

James Meade

Expression, Serious, Belief

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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Alan Dundes

Trying, Students, Genre

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Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

Bruce Sterling

Silly, Vegas, Gambling

"Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.

Curt Weldon

Two, Navy, Events

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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Antonia Fraser

Writing, Bedtime, Prison

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Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

John Bell Hood

War, Gun, Shells

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A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

John A. Logan

War, Party, Troops

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...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.

George Radda

Cancer, Heart, Animal

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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

W. S. Gilbert

Math, Animal, Vegetables

'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

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The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

Eli Roth

Real, Mean, Thinking

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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball, Hard Work, People

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After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

Pete Sampras

Sports, Passion, Winning

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

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By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Denis Waitley

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

Pete Hamill

Love, Peace, War

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What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life

Srully Blotnick

Loss, Achievement, Events

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I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

Dave Barry

Expansion, Dollars, Use

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One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Nikita Khrushchev

Party, Principles, Literature

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Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Tom Kite

Sports, Children, Kids

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TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Bill Bixby

Honesty, Tvs, Artistic

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