Great Quotes
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
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Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn't he. And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It's enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he's actually read it.
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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.
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For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
