Great Quotes
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.
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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
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You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
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I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.
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James Woods is great. I actually did a movie with James Woods in 2000: 'John Q.'
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I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.
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I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
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One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
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On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.
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It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
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'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
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The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
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If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
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I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
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Who's gonna dare to be great?
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I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.
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If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.
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A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.
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Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things... (110).
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
