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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
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I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my stand up act constantly. It was a dream gig.
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I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
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“Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.”
Bill Vaughan |
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'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
Emil Zatopek |
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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
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Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
Tina Turner |
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner |
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Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.
Mike Ditka |
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We will miss him greatly as we approach the first general election to utilize the new voting machines which he worked so hard to implement,
William Thomas |
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
William Wilberforce |
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“We remain a land of great promise, but we must move on, ... humility in exercising our power around the world.”
Bruce Springsteen |
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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There's always that oil and water thing going on, ... You don't know if people are going to congeal. Fortunately it's been great.
Dave Mustaine |
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang |
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats |
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I've been wanting to work with her ever since. It's great to see that wish finally come true.
John Legend |
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote |
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We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney |
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So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
David Icke |
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman |
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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Donald Cargill |
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
Dwayne Johnson |
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk |
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Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Ravi Shankar |
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.
Diana Ross |
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
Will Adams |
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda |
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I think it's better than ever, with more balance than ever. There are great boys and great girls.
Randy Jackson |
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You get a shot at bat when you win this. You've won the competition. You've got the prize. Now you've got to make a great record. That's the hardest thing for all of them, because I don't think all of them have made great records.
Randy Jackson |
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
Kate Chopin |
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The market will continue as it is without great variation until the government announces concrete economic plans.
Geronimo |
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Kevin Spacey |
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Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly |
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Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
Russell H. Conwell |
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May |
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Gary Locke |
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A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
David Bowie |
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
Alan Alda |
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