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• To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Greatness, Years, Practice

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• I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, May, Speak

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Sexy, Artist, Men

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• We just met for the first time and David Byrne was like, "Hey, you want to sing on this song?" and I was like, "Yes, I do want to sing on that song." He's the most legendary dude but I wasn't thinking about how he was a legend when rehearsing. I was just thinking, "Wow, this guy really knows what he wants in his music." And that ended up being the vibe, like "Oh, you wanna try that?" "Yeah, that sounds great!"

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Thinking, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

  L. Frank Baum

  Church, Devil, Absurd

  "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" Newspaper, October 18, 1890.

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• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Memorable, Vampire, Monsters

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• From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Cousin, Queens

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

  Caitlin Moran

  Needs, Minutes

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

  Harry E. Sloan

  America, Germany, Television

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Chris Rock went from a guy whose name you knew from SNL to a legendary comedian by working his ass off.

  Ted Alexandro

  Rocks, Names, Guy

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, People, Adults

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  Arthur Ashe

  Spiritual, Commitment, Pride

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  Dean Karnazes

  Book, Adventure, Air

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• I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Dream, Heart

  "NPR Skips Over Conservative/GOP Critique of Obama Olympics Bid". www.newsbusters.org. October 3, 2009.

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• This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.

  Gloria Estefan

  Artist, Cds, Play

  Burgundy Records announcement of '90 Millas' (orlandosentinel.com), August 10, 2007.

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• It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please.

  Albert J. Nock

  Hurt, Kings, Men

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 36), 1935.

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• I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Mean, Comedy, Program

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Artist, Names, Hearing

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• It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Ovation, Opera, Matter

  Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub

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• I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

  Serena Williams

  Careers, Firsts, Comeback

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• When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

  Max Walker

  Character, Night, Numbers

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

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• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.  You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

  Peter Golenbock

  Character, Opportunity, Purple

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