Greatest Quotes
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.
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Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
