Greatest Quotes
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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 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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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
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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 of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
