Great Quotes
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
Randall Jarrell
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I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!
Anne-Marie
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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.
C. S. Lewis
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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
James McBride
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I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.
Jack Roy
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You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
Jonathan Tisch
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
Anne Stevenson
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Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
Phyllis Schlafly
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When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.
Mark Kurlansky
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Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.
Eli Manning
