Major Quotes
2275 Major quotes by 1764 unique authors
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The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
— William Colby
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the…
— Roland Barthes
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
— Noam Chomsky
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If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it,…
— Randy Newman
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Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys,…
— Paul Zollo
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There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been…
— John C. Danforth
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In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the…
— Michio Kaku
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Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The market being in a trend is the main thing that eventually gets us in a trade. That is a pretty simple idea. Being consistent…
— Richard Dennis
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The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
— Jac Holzman
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I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a…
— Luke Donald
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Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never…
— Phyllis A. Whitney
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I like when a man has one strong accessory. If it's a watch, it has to be major. If you have strong shoes, it should…
— Riccardo Tisci
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Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the…
— Graig Nettles
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Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
— Darius Rucker
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I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked…
— Kirsten Dunst
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There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's…
— Eddie Griffin
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To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when…
— Emma Watson
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This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere.…
— Anna Kendrick
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And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal…
— Sarah Silverman
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up…
— Uma Thurman
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A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
— Andrew Stanton
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