Great Quotes
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Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
Peter Drucker
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That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
Joel Edgerton
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Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.
Macarius of Egypt
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
Lee Daniels
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The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
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I'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.
Andie MacDowell
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I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.
Eric Bana
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It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.
Deontay Wilder
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'
Jo Brand
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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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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.
Joe R. Lansdale
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A great speech is literature.
Peggy Noonan
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One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.
Channing Tatum
