Great Things Quotes - Page 15

• One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

  Cobie Smulders

  Dresses, Looks, Turning 30

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• It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

  Christine Taylor

  Kids, Different, Stage

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

  William H. Gass

  Way, Rooms, Twisted

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Self, Promise

  Jane Addams (2010). “The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness”, p.601, University of Illinois Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Calm, Kind

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• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  Euripides

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Looks, Fit

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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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 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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• UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

  Steven Horsford

  Example, Company

  "Nevada congressman really delivers", www.politico.com. February 23, 2014.

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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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• 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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