Great Quotes
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My wife and I lived in Chicago for two months, and we went to a lot of great restaurants.
Frank Vincent
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I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
W. C. Fields
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Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.
Jan Koum
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College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
Lusia Strus
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No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
Napoleon Hill
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I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
Jennifer Damiano
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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.
Ella Maillart
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I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.
John Lanchester
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A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
Geoffrey West
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Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
Anne Reid
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I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.
Elon Musk
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I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.
Frank Black
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
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You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.
Mark Parker
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The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.
Patton Oswalt
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Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
Napoleon Hill
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The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
Brian Tracy
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Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.
Bonnie Hammer
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The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
Laurie Colwin
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Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.
Diego Klattenhoff