Minus Quotes - Page 5

• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Portraits, Driving

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide and have 10 minutes per task. You have 10 minutes per task minus the time required for context-shifting. That will be the next big challenge: figuring out how to fight the distraction-driven mode we're in and stay focused on one thing long enough to get it done.

  Paul Saffo

  Fighting, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh

  Attitude, Believe, Men

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• Hillary [Clinton] has a resume. What is the story in Hillary's resume? Four dead in Benghazi, illegal emails, trafficking in classified information. The media hasn't gone there on that yet because when covering that aspect of Hillary minus [Donald] Trump, the story is the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Email, Covering

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Brave New World, Entering, Unions

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Energy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

  Taylor Mali

  Hard Work, Kids, Honor

  "'Teachers Make' A Difference, What About You?". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 6, 2012.

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• Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

  Sam Abell

  Home, People, Interesting

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• I don't really know how many pitches I threw. It's kind of what I usually do in a bullpen, minus about, I had a plan out there. I knew what I was going to do warming up and I did it. I actually felt pretty good.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Kind, Warming Up, Plans

  Source: m.mlb.com

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• At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

  Pattie Mallette

  Doctors, Games, Medicine

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• We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

  John Amaechi

  Mean, Past, College

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Two, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

  Christy Clark

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.

  Richard Dormer

  Ice, Trying, Glaciers

  Source: collider.com

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• Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.

  Stephen King

  Firsts, Formulas

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• They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  "Rules of Enragement". Comedy album, 2003.

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• Bringing a direct connection between ENTER. and MINUS, Maceo Plex delivers his CONJURE TWO EP that represents both the stripped down sound of MINUS and the atmosphere of ENTER.Ibiza!

  Richie Hawtin

  Ibiza, Two, Atmosphere

  FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Jun 02, 2014

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• Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

  Sue Thoele

  Heart, Intuition, Messages

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• My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.

  Keri Russell

  Workout, Pregnancy, Exercise

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• Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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• Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

  Norman Cousins

  Determination, Attitude, Moving

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• And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Thinking, Fire

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• Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

  Thomas a Kempis

  Two, Evil, Chosen

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