Minors Quotes - Page 24

• I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Reason, Dare

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Sacrifice, Russia, People

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• The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.

  Dorianne Laux

  Color, Rose, Looks

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• I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Drama, Years

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reading, Men, Light

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• Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Organization, Safety, Matter

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• Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Confusing, Intuition, Input

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• We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

  Sonny Barger

  Jail, People, Drug

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, People

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

  Heidi Julavits

  Country, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Song, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1451, Delphi Classics

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• I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nutrition program because you can only eat what is within walking distance of the hotel and what the clubhouse provides.

  Tyler Thornburg

  Baseball, Distance, League

  Source: reviewingthebrew.com

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• There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.

  John Williams

  Axes, Ice, Tilt

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• Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, School, Umpires

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• Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

  Andrew Lang

  Beautiful, Memorable, Fairy

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Boys, Scratches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Umpires, Careers

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

  Graham Greene

  Real, Character, Writing

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Thinking, Moon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fighting, Thank God, Bars

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch.

  Tim Lincecum

  Mistake, College, Hands

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