Great Things Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Self, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• No great thing happens suddenly.

  Rebecca West

  Change, Happens, Things Happen

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Doors, Perfect

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Important, About Yourself

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• The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

  Glenn Frey

  Looks, Aging, Young

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

  Propertius

  Enough

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• It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Roots, Facts

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Jobs, Husband, Moving

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• The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.

  Irving Azoff

  Artist, Technology, Marketing

  "Business Matters: Irving Azoff On Battling Business Models; Spotify; YouTube + RightsFlow" by Glenn Peoples, www.billboard.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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• Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Mother, People, Perception

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

  Eric Avery

  Cost, Stuff, Horrible

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• That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

  Juno Temple

  Meaningful, Character, Sin City

  "EXCLUSIVE: Juno Temple Talks Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 03, 2013.

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