Great Quotes
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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Alice Levine has great unique style and beautiful red hair.
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I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
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When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call upon someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs.
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Nothing beats a great smile.
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If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline.
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He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.
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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
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Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
