Great Quotes
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All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
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Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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My mom is a great entertainer.
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I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I love the idea that we can dress all sorts of people, and they feel great in the dresses, and that make us feel good.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
