Majors Quotes - Page 30

• I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.

  Jason Collins

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Teacher, Art, Dad

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

  Frank Wilczek

  Philosophy, Math, College

  Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific

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• There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Couple, Winning, America

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• Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

  Jalal Talabani

  Rights, Justice, Individual

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• Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Men, Cycling

  "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.

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• The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

  Michael R. Rose

  Fundamentals, Upheaval, Landscape

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• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

  Paula Danziger

  Should Have, Supportive, Age

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• The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe. . . . It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.

  Brando Skyhorse

  Girl, Teenage, Fighting

  Brando Skyhorse (2010). “The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

  Tomson Highway

  Balance, Rooms, Faults

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• Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

  Carolyn Kizer

  Ideas, Brain, Vision

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• An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

  Jeff Abbott

  Revenge, Heart, Responsibility

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• Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

  Jim George

  Commitment, Accomplishment, Levels

  Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.7, Harvest House Publishers

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• Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

  James Scott Bell

  Home, Character, Thinking

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• The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

  Tim Farron

  Rights, People, Frustrated

  Tim Farron's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.newstatesman.com. October 7, 2014.

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• There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

  Peter Cundill

  Panic, Reason

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• They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.

  Peter Cundill

  House, Research, Investment

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• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Country, Cities, America

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• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Blood, Tears, Details

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• It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

  Jim Rohn

  Your Future, Determine, Happens

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 01, 2009

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• The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

  Noam Chomsky

  Fate, Decision, Influence

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• Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Wise, Differences, Use

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, President, Speech

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• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Every setback has a major comeback.

  Russell Wilson

  Comeback, Setback

  Russell Wilson @DangeRussWilson, twitter.com. February 2, 2015.

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