Beryl Markham Quotes
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
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Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.
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I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
