Minor White Quotes
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
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It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.
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I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
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Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.
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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.
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Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the company could follow the same 'know your customer' guidelines Wall Street banks routinely employ to combat money laundering, logging each and every candidate and super PAC that advertises on Facebook.
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My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
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The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
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I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
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At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
