Great Things Quotes - Page 10

• I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Names, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

  Jaron Lanier

  Employment, Software, Amount

  "One Half of a Manifesto". www.edge.org. November 10, 2000.

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• I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.

  Jack White

  Weed, Thinking, Play

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

  Calvin Miller

  Giving, Silence, Doe

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• A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

  Frank Underhill

  Past, People, Together

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• Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

  Alan Menken

  Land, Today, Way

  "Alan Menken Discusses 'Tangled' and the Past, Present, and Future of the Animated Musical". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.ew.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Dream, Country, Athlete

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• Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Order, Car, Pay

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

  Aung San

  Hero, Believe, Men

  Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.

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• Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit of her career would already be a happy girl. She seems to be a determined woman, a fighter, very strong. I think she is an icon of Brazilian people. Gisele is a woman who is extremely inspiring, not only in the fashion world, she also does great things for the world.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Girl, Fashion, Strong

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• True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Kindness, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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• Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.

  William Carey

  Littles

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• I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Differences, Style, Used

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Profound, Details

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• There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Success, Fate

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• Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Careers, Able

  Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Baseball, Happens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Swim, Found, Periods

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• No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Opportunity, Years, Three

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• The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Wife, Bills

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.506, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

  Dave Barry

  Beer, Golf, Play

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• You hope you can fix it with the personnel that you have. On offense, we are doing some great things, but we did not execute. This group of men that I represent likes to work hard.

  Les Miles

  Hard Work, Men, Lsu

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• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  Amy Poehler

  Son, Italian, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

  Michael Wilbon

  Media, Tunes, Degrees

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.

  Robin Williams

  Laughing, Heaven, Would Be

  Source: www.ew.com

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