Minors Quotes - Page 2

• What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Way, Majors

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• A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loss, Dying, Culture

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Maine, Way

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

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• I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

  Simon Sinek

  Games, Play, League

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• I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  Brad Pitt

  Design, Furniture, Architecture

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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• We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Kids

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

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• Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, League, Want

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• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  School, Boys, College

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• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

  Francis Crick

  Twenties, Textbooks, Four

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Disappointment, Moving, Transition

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• There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Museums, Childhood

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Years, America, People

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• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Suffering, Would Be

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

  Joni Mitchell

  Tragedy, Needs, Emotion

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• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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• I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Dance, Details

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

  Jeremy Lin

  Kids, Degrees, Ministry

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• I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Trying, Trouble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Eye, Keys

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• Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

  Tony Blair

  Sleep, Wife, Nuclear

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