Great Quotes
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
I. M. Pei
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Louis Sachar
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When I was 4 years old … I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.
Bertrand Russell
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«I want to convey to the Spaniards a message of hope. ETA is a great nation; Spain, sorry, it's a great nation.»
Mariano Rajoy
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Clock, n.: A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
Ambrose Bierce
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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
Austan Goolsbee
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I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
Lena Dunham
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I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
Dennis Quaid
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On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.
Dennis Hastert
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Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.
Hillary Clinton
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I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.
Kelly Olynyk
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I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.
Jenny Lewis
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I tell you that I have nothing more to wish for. They were extremely pleased with my pictures, and expressed great satisfaction not only the King, but the Prince as well. Neither I nor my works deserve such recognition.
Francisco Goya
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
John Malkovich
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The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.
Frederick Douglass
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Shoutout to Latinas! You've been great at supporting me, and I appreciate you!
Christine Flores
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If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.
Brock Osweiler
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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
Wilfred Bion
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You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
David Grann
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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.
Clarence Darrow
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Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
Dean Wareham