Majors Quotes - Page 22

• Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

  Pam Shriver

  Drug, World, Speculation

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• N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Boys, Years, Peaceful

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• Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hate, Thinking, Impact

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• Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Contracts, Studios

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• There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.

  Matt Taibbi

  Powerful, Book, Player

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• Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

  Fred Thompson

  Common Sense, Sticks, Reason

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• So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

  Fred Thompson

  Relationship, Choices, Want

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• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

  Kenny Marchant

  Friendship, Men, People

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• You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

  Bob Uecker

  Player, Two, Years

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• Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

  Bob Uecker

  Running, Home, League

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Stars, America

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Responsibility, Games

  "MLB Launches Anti-Steroid Campaign at Classic". Epoch Times, March 23, 2006.

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• Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Acceptance, Feelings, Doe

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  Garth Brooks

  Team, Games, League

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• I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Believe, Issues, People

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• We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

  Sean Lennon

  Air, Transformation, Uncertain

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

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• The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

  Philip Berrigan

  Church, Bureaucracy

  Philip Berrigan, Fred Wilcox (1996). “Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan”, Common Courage Pr

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• Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Fun, League

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• You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

  Steve Case

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

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• I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

  G. H. Hardy

  Past, Men, Fifty

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.

  Neil Postman

  Creating, Phrases, Use

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.27, Penguin

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• On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Country, Taken

  "Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies", edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2006.

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  California, Doors, Pay

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• Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

  Garrison Keillor

  Authority, English Major

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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