Excellent Quotes
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Aristotle
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby
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We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
Kari Stefansson
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian
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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Brian Tracy
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
Kapil Sibal
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
Oprah Winfrey
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Excellent things are rare.
Plato
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Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
Kate Christensen
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli
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But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
Oscar Wilde
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We're happy to keep someone of Tom's caliber in Philadelphia. Tom has done an excellent job and it was important for this organization to have him continue in this general manager role for the foreseeable future.
Andy Reid
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We haven't gotten consistent car supply to meet our needs.
Hank Ketcham
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Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.
Rachel Caine
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
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It's an excellent life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life -- hugely privileged.... It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different.
J. M. Roberts
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Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent.
Maggie Nelson
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
A. Y. Jackson
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel Johnson
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There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.
Declan Lynch
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Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
Chogyam Trungpa