Quotes with small-minded

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  • Bjork With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bob Newhart With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Jules Renard Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Jules Renard Words are the small change of thought.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Bell Hooks Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Charlotte Brontë You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bonnie Bassler You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Bob Anderson You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
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  • Bob Seger You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bob Moses You dig into yourself and the community to wage psychological war fare; you combat your own fears about beatings, shootings, and possible mob violence... you create a small striking force capable of moving out when the time comes.
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  • Cate Blanchett You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bryan Batt You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Edgar A. Guest You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
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  • George Konrad You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
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  • Curtis Carlson You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carl Sagan Your god is too small for my universe.
    Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Fuller A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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