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“Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.”

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Author:Paul Daniels

“When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.”

Matter Members Degrees Majority Minorities Agendas

Author:Tom Daschle

“There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.”

People Ifs Happens Artist Sides Half Industry Creating Majority Billions Online Listening To Music Music Industry New Music Spotify

Author:Daniel Ek

“I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.”

I Can Together Guy Can Do Plans Majority Sticks Festivals

Author:Evan Glodell

“The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.”

Play Home Three Week Football My Family Majority Three Times

Author:Martin Gore

“The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.”

Facts Use Energy Materials Asking Majority Seven Population Woods Meat Damage Proportion Etc Gas Minorities Overwhelming Cents Emissions Raw Materials Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.”

Want Care Law President Majority Barack Health Care President Barack Obama

Author:John Barrasso

“My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.”

Way Wells House Parent Crazy Huge Majority Workers Mum Staff Extravagant Housework Nannies

Author:Petra Stunt

“In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.”

Two Science Three Individual Process Levels Development Organization Majority Patterns Repeats Eggs Length Genes Units Embryos Spatial Mutants Developmental

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.”

People Men May Causes Common Effort Majors Weakness Overcoming Majority Persistence

Book:Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

“In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.”

School Levels Demand Achievement High School Majority Average Norm Social Norms Above Average

Author:James S. Coleman

“Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.”

People War Known Majority Desert Affected Civilians

Book:Transformation of War

Source: Transformation of War

“Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.”

Majority Tired Iraq Terrorist

Author:Peter DeFazio

“I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.”

Believe Stills Cutting Republican Taxes Majority Income Income Tax Tax Cuts I Still Believe

Author:Mary Fallin

“I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.”

World Years Looks Girl Changed Majority Magazines Niece My Niece

Author:Prabal Gurung

“In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of the day, and it kind of trickles into nightlife and all that. People stay within their circles and there's no real mingling to be had.”

People Kind Real Used Car Majority Circles Interacting Mingling Nightlife

Author:Shenae Grimes

“How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?”

Want Issues Waste Majority Congress Wasting Time

Author:Raul Grijalva

“In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Wells Facts Dies Died Majority Expected Aids Viruses Hiv Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Claudio Hummes

“Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.”

Ifs Years Reading Five Reader Majority Republic Tablets

Author:Chris Hughes

“Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.”

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Author:John Hoeven

“It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.”

Attention Nice Majority Orchestra

Author:Leila Josefowicz

“The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.”

Ifs Doe Interest Protect Majority Tyranny Minorities Private Life Restriction Tyranny Of The Majority

Author:Phillip E. Johnson

“The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.”

Writing Firsts Liberty Opinion Tradition Agree Majority Court Eight Dissent Majority Opinion

Author:William O. Douglas

“The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.”

People States United United States Support Majority Partnership Strategic Afghan

Author:Hamid Karzai

“Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.”

Government Today Nations Interest Numbers Right Now Majority China Debt Japan Purchasers Government Debt

Author:Ron Kind