Quotes with minor

  • We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
  • TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
  • Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Miller Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bo Bennett Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Uecker In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ben Zobrist In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Orr 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
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
    Minor White
     
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  • Vince Lombardi Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
    Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
    English actor and theatre manager (1852 - 1917)
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Barry Ritholtz TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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