Great Quotes
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
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I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
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It was a great play by me. I made the play, but it was something we'd talked about the whole game.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.
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The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.
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It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.
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One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful.
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When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.
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A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
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I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.
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We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.
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I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
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That's a great job for (Larry), ... (There's) a lot of money there. It's home.
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Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I'm still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets.
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It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
