Great Quotes
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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I have great tenants. They've all become my friends. They call me and say, 'Hey Kev, we've got a drip!'
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I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
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You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
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There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
