Great Quotes
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I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.
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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
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In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.
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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.
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I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
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Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
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If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
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It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
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The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
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There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
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I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
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Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
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Ballet is only good when it is great.
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There are no small steps in great affairs.
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Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
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'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.
