Great Quotes
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I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours is a long time. Think about how long that is. It was tricky, but it was a great experience.
Kevin Connolly
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
Agnes Macphail
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
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I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Placido Domingo
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If you want to see great mixed martial arts, tune in when I fight. If you want to see drama and all of that stuff, you guys can go watch 'Bachelors in Paradise.' They'll give you enough drama you can want to watch.
Demetrious Johnson
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Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
Audrey MacLean
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Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
Joan Kirner
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Brian Greene
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
Anna Paquin
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Those were men in whom great strength and knowledge served the will to evil and fed upon it. Whether the wizardry that serves a better end may always prove the stronger, we do not know. We hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.
P. L. Travers
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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
Fredrik Bajer
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost
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It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.
Luke Donald
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For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
Armistead Maupin
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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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«Spain is a great nation and Spaniards very Spanish and much Spanish.»
Mariano Rajoy
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I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
David Suchet
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
Camille Paglia
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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant