977 private quotes tagged great

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” — Earl Nightingale

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“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.” — Margot Fonteyn

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“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.” — Horace

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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan

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“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” — George Edward Moore

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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.” — John Ruskin

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“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” — Louis Kahn

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.” — Mitt Romney

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“This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.” — Mitt Romney

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“When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'” — Mitt Romney

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“I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.” — Hillary Clinton

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“The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.” — Mitt Romney

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“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.” — Mitt Romney

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“One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” — Barack Obama

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“Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.” — Martha Gellhorn

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“When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.” — Elisha Cuthbert

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“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.” — Barack Obama

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“And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.” — Mitt Romney

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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” — Glenn Hughes

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