Great Quotes
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To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, 'I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.'
Plutarch
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I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.
C. S. Lewis
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You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.
Andre Ward
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It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
James D. Watson
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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
Lord Byron
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There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
Patrick Henry
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I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.
Jane Levy
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I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.
Oprah Winfrey
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I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
Kenneth Lonergan
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It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
Antonia Thomas
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I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.
Alia Shawkat
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The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
Lisa Loeb
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The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
Lucien Bouchard
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I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
Emmylou Harris
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
Duncan Jones
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
Kameron Hurley
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner
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I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
Ben Fountain
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Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.
I. Bernard Cohen
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Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth.
Odysseas Elytis
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I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.
John Raese
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In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
Marianne Williamson
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The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu