Great Quotes
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If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
Chinua Achebe
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman
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So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
John Frankenheimer
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I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.
Katie Aselton
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
Walt Mossberg
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Learning is always great!
Yami Gautam
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
Malcolm McDowell
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I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
Douglas Adams
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
G-Eazy
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As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Philip Sidney
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I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.
Josh Turner
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
Victoria Osteen
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
Jack Kirby
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
Kate Winslet
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker
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The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
H. L. Mencken
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I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar Khayyam
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
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You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
T. D. Jakes
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For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
Marcus Sakey