Great Quotes
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Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
David L. Wolper
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In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.
John Ruskin
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One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.
Alicia Silverstone
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name. … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
George Eliot
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The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
Elliott Abrams
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Jeremy Taylor
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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
Maud Adams
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My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
James Caan
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The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.
Alvin E. Roth
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Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.
Brian Tyree Henry
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'Game of Thrones' is great. Love it.
Jesse Metcalfe
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I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
John Hurt
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Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. (p. 309)
Marshall McLuhan
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To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.
Alex Guarnaschelli
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Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.
Jo Beverley
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Though it lash the shallows that line the beach, Afar from the great sea-deeps,There is never a storm whose might can reach Where the vast leviathan sleeps.Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind In the clear cold depths he swims;Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind With a dash o'er the surface skims.
John Boyle O'Reilly
