Great Quotes
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
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Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
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Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.
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My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
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If there's one thing I've said more than anything else, it's that it's great that this is (one of) the first teams to be inducted. Because that group was the epitome of team.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
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I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
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I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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I think there are really great movements happening in Portland. It's nice being in a place that supports itself and stands on its own.
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This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
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I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.
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'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
