Majors Quotes - Page 19

• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Organization, Looks, News

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity….let’s wake up.

  Asher Roth

  Sex, Hate, Play

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• I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Baby, Trying, Jake

  "Banks Swings into Stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'" by Anthony Breznican, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2008.

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• One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Thinking, Next

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• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, College, Years

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• The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

  Ryne Sandberg

  Games, League, Uniforms

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• I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

  Tracey Emin

  Would Be, Exhibitions, My One And Only

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

  Robert Hunter

  Circles, Darkness, Lovers

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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Stills, Plenty, Written

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• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Block, Thinking, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

  Van Jones

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

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• To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Climate

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• And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

  Alex Jones

  Media, Cities, Majority

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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• The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Gdp, Objectivity, Data

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• The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

  Wes Jackson

  Creating, Agriculture, Desire

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.22, Counterpoint

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• Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Believe, World

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• Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Alcohol, Overcoming, Complication

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• Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Leader

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• It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching the major TV networks or contemporary videos to have a Christian mind. This is always true of all Christians in every situation! A Biblical mental program cannot coexist with worldly programming.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Biblical, Mind

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• I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Believe, Impact, Important

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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• All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

  Irwin Schiff

  Opportunity, Government, Political

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