Minus Quotes - Page 6

• People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Opportunity, Space

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Stupid, Struggle

  "Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

  Murray Horwitz

  Hollywood, Film, Categories

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Hands, Spy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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• Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

  Brené Brown

  Answers, Mystery, Ifs

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• I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, Two, Unhappy

  "Director Baumbach Tracks Family Failure". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. November 29, 2007.

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• I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

  Robert Benchley

  Eggs, Tea, Paper

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Farewell

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• I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.

  Tracy McMillan

  Thinking, Order, Masculine And Feminine

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• Bringing a direct connection between ENTER. and MINUS, Maceo Plex delivers his CONJURE TWO EP that represents both the stripped down sound of MINUS and the atmosphere of ENTER.Ibiza!

  Richie Hawtin

  Ibiza, Two, Atmosphere

  FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Jun 02, 2014

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• I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh

  Attitude, Believe, Men

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• I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Energy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  "Rules of Enragement". Comedy album, 2003.

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• Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.

  Stephen King

  Firsts, Formulas

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• At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

  Pattie Mallette

  Doctors, Games, Medicine

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• You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

  Taylor Mali

  Hard Work, Kids, Honor

  "'Teachers Make' A Difference, What About You?". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 6, 2012.

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• I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.

  Richard Dormer

  Ice, Trying, Glaciers

  Source: collider.com

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• We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

  Christy Clark

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Two, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

  John Amaechi

  Mean, Past, College

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I don't really know how many pitches I threw. It's kind of what I usually do in a bullpen, minus about, I had a plan out there. I knew what I was going to do warming up and I did it. I actually felt pretty good.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Kind, Warming Up, Plans

  Source: m.mlb.com

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• Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

  Sam Abell

  Home, People, Interesting

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Brave New World, Entering, Unions

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] has a resume. What is the story in Hillary's resume? Four dead in Benghazi, illegal emails, trafficking in classified information. The media hasn't gone there on that yet because when covering that aspect of Hillary minus [Donald] Trump, the story is the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Email, Covering

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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