Great Quotes
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see it differently - I'll want to see my great-grandchildren and live forever. But right now, young Brittany is not setting things up for old Brittany. And young Brittany does not care.
Brittany Howard
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Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.
Chuck Liddell
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There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus comedy 'PCU,' has crossed over into playing the stiff martinet.
Elvis Mitchell
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No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could.
Joanne Rowling
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I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.
Portia de Rossi
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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
Butch Trucks
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Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.
Pam Tillis
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We all have this idea of Ram being a patient person besides being a great archer, a horse-rider, and above all, a compassionate king. There is more to him than that.
Ashish Sharma
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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Pauline Kael
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
Thomas Mitchell Morris
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Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.
Leighton Meester
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Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
John Sununu
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It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.
Aliette de Bodard
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Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
Katharine Hepburn
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
Ann Brashares
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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
Peter Dinklage
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What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she speaks. What was really interesting to me was I found various radio and TV appearances of hers, but there was one talk show that I saw her on; she was the only woman, it was all men. They were talking about policy - I think it was after she was First Lady. I think it was more in the U.N. days.
Cynthia Nixon
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I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
John Joseph Lydon
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Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.
Ajith Kumar
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Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.
Anat Cohen
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For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
John Quincy Adams
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We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
John C. Calhoun