Majority Quotes - Page 21

• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

  Danny Boyle

  Imagination, Hatred, Directors

  "IGN Interviews Danny Boyle". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

  H. Rap Brown

  Thinking, Numbers, Color

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• The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Senior, Class, Desire

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2010). “Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Large Print 16pt)”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.

  Julie Burchill

  People, Looks, Interest

  "Attracting men is child's play, ladies - just grow up and act your age" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

  Jeb Bush

  Cutting, People, Enhancement

  "The words Jeb Bush may come to regret" by Jonathan Topaz, www.politico.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

  Jeb Bush

  Party, Thinking, White

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• We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

  Robert Byrd

  Men, Law, Germany

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.83, Macmillan

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• I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, People, Low Income

  "Nick Clegg: parents can use pension pots to help young people buy property" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gun, People, Illegal

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• The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

  John Dyer

  May, October, Painting

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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  Rahm Emanuel

  America, Comforting, Mind

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• The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Needs, Misconception

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• Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.

  Ron Fournier

  Writing, Justice, President

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• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Believe, Media

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• I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

  Al Franken

  Confused, People, Middle

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• I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

  Lev Grossman

  Forgotten, Ends, Novel

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• Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mammograms, Messages, Public Service

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• I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Trying, Actors

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• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

  Penn Jillette

  Hurt, Gun, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

  Michael Jordan

  Nba, Careers, Goal

  "N.B.A. Board Approves Jordan’s Purchase of the Bobcats" by Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Names, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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