Great Quotes
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Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
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I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
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It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.
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One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.
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And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
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A lot of times in Hollywood, when casting directors find out you're of Middle Eastern descent, they go, 'Oh, you're Iranian? Great. Can you say, 'I will kill you in the name of Allah?'' I could say that, but what if I were to say, 'Hello, I'm your doctor.'
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I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
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The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
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I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.
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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
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For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.
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The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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I've been really fortunate to be associated with all these great shows.
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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
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We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
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The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There's always some kind of drama playing out.
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
