Great Quotes

• Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Single
  • Poverty
  • Discipline

• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  

  Anthony Perkins
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • God
  • Happy

• I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

  

  John Niven
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I can't believe it. To lose (a race) that close, I don't what to feel, to be honest right now. Should I be happy? Should I be sad? I don't know. It's a weird feeling to finish second in this kind of situation, so close. We got ourselves back a little bit into the championship, and moved up into fifth. Let's keep moving. We gave it all we had, but we just couldn't push ahead on the final lap. Being realistic, Dan (Wheldon) is probably going to win the championship, but it would be a great goal to have two Marlboro Team Penske cars finish in the top five in points.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Believe
  • Feeling
  • Goal

• Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Great
  • God
  • She

• Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Great

• I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

  

  David Hockney
  • Great

• Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

  

  George Lois
  • People
  • Great

• There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Growing

• The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Great
  • Improvement

• There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Great
  • Long
  • Cooking

• This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.

  

  Marin Cilic
  • Great
  • Victory
  • Tennis

• The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Great
  • Business
  • Small

• The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

  

  John Milius
  • Great
  • Control

• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Character
  • Society
  • Black

• He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Night
  • Luck
  • Friday

• The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Boring

• I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Great
  • Brain

• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Great

• It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • World
  • Great
  • Feeling

• 'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Great
  • Music
  • Star

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