Great Quotes
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In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
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A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
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My brother Matt and I, we have a great relationship.
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We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
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There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
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I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.
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We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.
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You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.
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There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
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No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
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I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
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For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
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Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
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'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.
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I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.
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My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
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My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.
