Great Quotes
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In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do.
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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
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I have no great message to the world.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
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Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!
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As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
