Great Things Quotes - Page 18

• Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunset, Opportunity, Appreciate

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• When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.

  Eddie Izzard

  Fun, Comedian, Actors

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

  Alexander Wang

  People, Way, Lines

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• I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.

  Vin Diesel

  Hurt, Wrestling, Fighting

  "Vin Diesel Interview, Riddick". www.moviesonline.ca. November 23, 2017.

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• The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Grandmother, Black And White, Moon

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Inner Life, My Own

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Queens, Differences, People

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• There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Trying, Fiction

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

  Michael Stipe

  Fall, Vision, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Believe, Suffering, Misfortunes

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.156

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• The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mean, Men, Practice

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Judging, Perfection

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• If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Willing, Ifs

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Trying, Impossible

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• We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Done, Has Beens

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.71, Xist Publishing

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• If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

  John Ross Macduff

  Trust, Answers, May

  John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”

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• I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Add, Physics

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• We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Retiring

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

  Nora Ephron

  Fighting, Want, Lasts

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.66, Melville House

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• In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Matter, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  Fergus Henderson

  Ambition, Fate, Luck

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• A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.

  Julian of Norwich

  Joy, Heaven, Worship

  Julian of Norwich, Wyatt North (2014). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.31, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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• Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Long, Schedules

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Self, Thorough

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