Great Quotes
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I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.
Ken Jeong
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I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.
Emmanuelle Beart
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None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.
Lauren Alaina
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We must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
H. G. Wells
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I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.
Jim Goetz
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I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
Joe Manganiello
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By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
Kehinde Wiley
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I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
George Best
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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
Alexander Skarsgard
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.
Napoleon Hill
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I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Cook
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I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
Leslie Cockburn
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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
Max Frisch
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You know, she often tells me that what I do is great. I don't think she ever thought I would end up doing this with my life. But I think she is happier that I haven't changed over the years, that I am still me, that I care about her and that we are the same as we always were. And I think that is what makes her most proud.
Halle Berry
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Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
Debra Wilson
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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
H. G. Wells
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'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.
Jeffrey Tambor
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We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling.
Jenji Kohan
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One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.
Chrystia Freeland
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British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
Luke Evans
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Abiding in heaven was he, my desire, Against the eagle, against the fear of the unskilful. I am a bard, and I am a harper, I am a piper, and I am a crowder. Of seven score musicians the very great enchanter.
Taliesin
