Quotes of: Minor Keyword

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

David Liss

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Peter Bart

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.

Avigdor Lieberman

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Barbara Jordan

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

Pat Metheny

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected ...

Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who h...

What I Saw in America

Narrator: [introducing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor] What you will see are the different things that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music. At first, you are more or less conscious of the orchestra. ...

Fantasia

John Anderton: [to Agatha] Everyday for the last six years I've thought of only two things. The first is what Sean would look like if he were alive today, if I would recognize him if I saw him on the street, the second is what I would do to the man w...

Minority Report

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Peter Fenn

I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority.

Hate is Such a Strong Word

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes -Miles "Pudge

Looking for Alaska

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

Bryan Robson

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Justin Long

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

Linda Chavez

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Paul Wolfowitz

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Randy Alcorn

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Katharine Hepburn

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Linda Sanchez