Great Quotes
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She's done a great job. She and her staff have really brought the level of competition up ... I believe the future is very bright for Pittsburgh. Very, very bright.
C. Vivian Stringer
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I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.
Jeb Bush
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Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
Donald Hall
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Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.
Ali Fazal
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
Ken Follett
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I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
Kyra Sedgwick
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I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.
Elayne Boosler
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I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
Ashton Kutcher
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
Ken Robinson
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
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I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.
Dean Devlin
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
Jeff Koons
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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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Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation.
Napoleon Hill
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If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.
Dean Ambrose
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The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.
Jose Andres
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We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.
Marcus Samuelsson
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The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.
James Boswell
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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
Walker Percy
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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
H. L. Mencken
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I think idiosyncrasy is great.
Elizabeth Diller
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My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.
Alexa Chung
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For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.
Frank Lampard