Majors Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

  Iggy Pop

  Nice, Years, Issues

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• 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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• 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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• Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Kids, Directors

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

  Orson Welles

  College, Pie, Today

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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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• That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Literature, Want

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• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Greatest Fear, Cities

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• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Challenges, Majority

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  Player, Cycling, Energy

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Careers, Focus

  "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Money, Mean

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• The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

  Tiger Woods

  Respect, Views, Games

  "Tiger Woods to play Masters next month" by James Hibberd, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2010.

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• If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

  Regina Brett

  Writing, Phones, Order

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

  Francis Collins

  Running, Long, Technological

  "The Covenant" by Peter J. Boyer, www.newyorker.com. September 6, 2010.

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• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Lasts, Architecture

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Survivor, Oscars

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• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Dames

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