Great Things Quotes - Page 11

• I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.

  Joe Hahn

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "Octavia Spencer Talks RED BAND SOCIETY, Her Character’s Journey in Season 1, Favorite Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

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• One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

  Gary Oldman

  Done, Stuff, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.

  Gary Oldman

  Google, Ends, Peter

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

  Johnny Galecki

  Games, Trying, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state of cheer.

  Andrew W.K.

  Cheer, Choices, Over You

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

  Lil B

  Smart, People, Causes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Love Is, Radio

  "Miranda Lambert: Women in Country Have to Stick Together". Associated Press Interview, gulfnews.com. April 18, 2015.

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• In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Play, Get Better

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Goal, Life Is, Achieve

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

  Will Smith

  Fun, Home, Trying

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview With Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Great Work, Knows

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• A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

  George Carlin

  Law, Two, Half

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• One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

  James Purefoy

  Challenges, Different, Actors

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• Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

  John Calvin

  Thinking, Order, May

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

  Alexander Gould

  Weed, Fun, Taken

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

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• Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

  Steve Tisch

  Hollywood, Pieces, Mouths

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• No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

  Ouida

  Talking, World, Talkers

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.96, Ouida

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Familiar, Customs

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe,Volume II, Chapter I. On Judgments, 1688.

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• Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Death, Heart, Fighting

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.585

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

  William James

  Form, Fears Of Life

  William James (1925). “The Philosophy of William James: Drawn from His Own Works”

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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