Great Quotes
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
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I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.
Joseph Wapner
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You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time.
Robin LaFevers
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In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Antony Beevor
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I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"
Jason Mraz
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By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
Kelly Wearstler
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I've tried to take roles with great demands.
Annette Bening
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
Francis Bacon
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In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe
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That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
Dennis Quaid
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The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.
Jose Andres
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I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.
Matthew Morrison
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That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.
Adam Rayner
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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.
E. O. Wilson
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There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.
Clemantine Wamariya
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I have this Waterpik that shoots water between your teeth. It's great. You do that along with flossing, and you know for a fact you've cleaned your mouth as much as humanly possible. It's like going to the dentist every night in your bathroom. I don't know if it's a floss replacement, but in conjunction with flossing, it's great.
Adam Scott
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey
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To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Leon Askin
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Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
Carl Hart