Great Quotes
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One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.
Geoff Dyer -
Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
Shania Twain
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
Demosthenes -
Great conversations always spark in a genuine interest to recognize and know the other person's story and, therefore, recognizing and understanding and celebrating their humanity.
Janet Mock -
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
Marilynne Robinson -
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
Kevin Macdonald -
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
Lucinda Williams
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Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
Margaret Heffernan -
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
D. H. Lawrence -
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
Ryan Stiles -
I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
Cilla Black -
The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.
Ian Astbury The Cult
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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
Peter Thiel -
When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'
Gene Simmons -
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
Freya Stark -
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
Luke Evans -
I get to play with great friends and a great crew, every day, blowing stuff up and saying evil lines. You can't complain about that.
Casper Crump -
As a singer you're a great dancer.
Amy Leslie
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
Jools Holland -
On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
Julia Roberts -
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
John Sununu