Legends Quotes

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  A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

  Usain Bolt

  Motivational Sports, People, My Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

  Lauren Bacall

  Past

  "The moments that last". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Keys, Feelings

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• If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Being Alone, Ifs

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

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• We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

  Bennett Madison

  Doe, Possession

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• I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

  Britney Spears

  Fear, Next, Performing

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

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• Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

  Ethel Merman

  Heart, Voice, Bigs

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Coffins, Way

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• Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

  James A. Baldwin

  Society, Together, Foundation

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• He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Respect, Nice, Believe

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• All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Games, Guy

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• There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Ancient, Should

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• I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

  Ben E. King

  Keys, Clothes

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

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• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Past, Example

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Growing Up, Memories, Thinking

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• When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

  Tecumseh

  Dream, Greatness, Dies

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do". Book by Lance Secretan, p. 67, 2004.

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• In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Years, Financial

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Games, Style

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• Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

  Rex Harrison

  Lunchtime

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Facts, Sometimes

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• A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Mind, Band

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• All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

  John Boorman

  Stories, Behavior, Myth

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• [On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Should Have Known, Be A Man

  Look Magazine, 27 Nov. 1967

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