Great People Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Reflection, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful, People, Cornwall

  "My Husband and I" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2003.

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• I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

  David Brooks

  Sleep, People, Funny Graduation

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• If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Fun, People, Roles

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• It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

  David Plotz

  New York, People, Brooklyn

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ocean, Men, Wind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.131

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• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

  Berenice Bejo

  People, Scripts, Auditions

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 6, 2012.

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• But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

  Brad Bird

  Hard Work, People, Harder

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

  Shane West

  People, Experience, Becoming

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• A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, People, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “American ideals”

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• I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, People, Want

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• It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

  Richard Fleeshman

  People, Roles, Brilliant

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dark, Color, People

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• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Real, Destiny, Dna

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• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  David Neeleman

  Smile, Fun, People

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Intreview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

  Ryan Holiday

  Opposites, People, Tragedy

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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• I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Clear Direction, Two

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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  Fran Drescher

  Queens, Growing Up, People

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Feminist

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

  Mark Yarnell

  Mlm, People, Marketing

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• And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  People, Sony, Publishing

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• Choose great people and shine in their shadows

  Richard Branson

  People, Shining, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Dec 27, 2014

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, People, Doubt

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