Greatest Quotes
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I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
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The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
