All Quotes

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
‐‐ Steven Zaillian

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.
‐‐ Michael Arrington

The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.
‐‐ Gillian Welch

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

The mainstream is always under attack.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
‐‐ Steven Berkoff

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
‐‐ Barbara Olson

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
‐‐ Fred Barnes

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.
‐‐ Kid Rock

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
‐‐ Ron White

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.
‐‐ Steven Levitt

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
‐‐ Arleigh Burke

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

The major driver of economics is the equilibrium approach, which has taken various forms over the years. General equilibrium is the statement that all the different parts of the economy influence each other, even if it's remote, like mortgage-backed securities and their demands on automobiles.
‐‐ Kenneth Arrow

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
‐‐ Timothy Geithner

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.
‐‐ Robert C. Solomon

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.
‐‐ Peter Bart

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
‐‐ Galina Vishnevskaya

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
‐‐ Robert Bork

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
‐‐ Dave Barry

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
‐‐ Jim Rohn