Great Ones Quotes - Page 3

• Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

  Camille Paglia

  Jesus, Comedian, Brilliant

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• Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grief, Expression, Laughing

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press

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• Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Despair

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• On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Two, New Orleans

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• Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  Jean Racine

  Crime

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• An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Love, Book, Reading

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

  Carl Bernstein

  New York, Years, Three

  "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Tasks, Scripts

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• As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Mind, World

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• As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Pursue

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Ideas, News Stories

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

  Jason Gann

  Hollywood Films, Australia, Work Out

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

  Jason Reitman

  Crush, Careers, Perfect

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• Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Forever, Here And There

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Those that weather the storm are the great ones.

  DJ Khaled

  Weather, Storm

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• Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Stealing, Minors

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Views, Doe

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Mean, Long, People

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• Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

  Louis de Montfort

  Suffering, Doe, Littles

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• Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sheep, Government, Ideas

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1124, Library of America

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• There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Nuts, People

  "Michael Jackson: 'I am scared of my father'". Interview with Shmuley Boteach, www.nbcnews.com.

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• I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

  Zoe Bell

  Appreciate, Acting, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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• Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

  John Vanderslice

  Making Love, One Day, Robots

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.

  Patrick Grant

  Past, Thinking, London

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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