Great Quotes
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Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
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I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.
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Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
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I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.
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I used to be a great blues singer.
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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
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Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.
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Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be,Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea.Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down,Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown.
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A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
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The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
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Among their members were some of the wealthiest individuals in the world; between them, fortunes sufficient to trade in nations. None of the seven had a name that would have meant anything to the hoi polloi-they were, like the truly mighty, anonymously great.
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I've heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.
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Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
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It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.
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After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
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For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
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Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
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The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.
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There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.
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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
