Minors Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation tendency, because you don't just reciprocate affection, you reciprocate animosity, and the whole thing can escalate. And so huge insanities can come from just subconsciously over-weighing the importance of what you're losing or almost getting and not getting.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Mean, People

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

  Pico Iyer

  Differences, Culture, World

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• ...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

  Richard Lindzen

  Global Warming, Increase, Predictions

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• For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.

  Rick Joyner

  Events, Attention, Purpose

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• Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have achieved a certain level and with whom i can easily communicate, which means you don't have to do too much explaining so you won't waste precious time. I don't do much explaining during rehersals and we are just adjusting minor details. Simply, there is no space nor time for one to learn and each of them has to do their homework on time. That means practising, transitioning from a level to level.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  School, Mean, Space

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• After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

  Marco Rubio

  Order, People, President

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Discrimination, Breaking Down, Mainstream

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Rapper, Years

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• One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

  Denis Waitley

  Stress, Adversity, Successful

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• Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

  James Madison

  Party, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.47, Coventry House Publishing

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• Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, Truman

  "Can They Stand the Heat?The Art of the Insult" by Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 1998.

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• A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

  Warren Buffett

  Taken, Years, Should

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• There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

  Warren Buffett

  Expectations, Negative, Dollars

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• Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

  John McCain

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Destiny, People

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• I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

  Russell Hoban

  Character, Stories, Might

  Russell Hoban (2000). “The Turtle Diary”, p.174, A&C Black

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• Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Stealing, Great Ones

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Two, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.

  Charles Bowden

  Military, Blow, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Thinking, Boston

  Source: therumpus.net

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