977 private quotes tagged great

“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.” — Steven Seagal

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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?” — Colin Powell

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“I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'” — Kristen Wiig

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“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.” — Emma Goldman

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“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.” — Joseph Addison

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“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.” — James Lane Allen

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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.” — Willa Cather

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“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.” — Malcolm Gladwell

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“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.” — Barry Goldwater

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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — John W. Gardner

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“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.” — John Ruskin

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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” — John Burroughs

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“I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.” — Francesca Annis

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“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.” — Dorothy Hamill

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“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” — Emmanuel Teney

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“I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.” — Kate Clinton

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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.” — E. M. Forster

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“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.” — John Ruskin

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“It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.” — Keith Richards

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