Great Quotes
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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!
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The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
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There is great freedom in simplicity of living.
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I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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'Sir Tristano spoke: 'Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!''Naturally!' said the voice from a point close behind. 'That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!'
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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
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Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
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I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.
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I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
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Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.
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I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.
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Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
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You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.
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At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.
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I've had a great run and have been blessed not only with a great career, but also, thanks to all of you nice people buying video games, t-shirts, action figures, collected editions - and watching all those movies and TV shows - my royalty income allows me financial security for life.
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A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
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Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.
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I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
