Great Quotes
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
John James Audubon
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.
Janet Reno
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I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.
Marcus Samuelsson
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For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
Jenna Wortham
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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
Alice McDermott
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
Delbert McClinton
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There has never been a great 'silent' defense.
Del Harris
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
Demosthenes
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France is great because she is France.
Victor Hugo
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Thomas Carlyle
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I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.
Maxine Peake
