Legends Quotes - Page 26

• The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  Sasha Alexander

  Beautiful, Icons, Normal

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

  Raekwon

  Men, Names, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

  Ray Charles

  Genius, Said, Heard

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

  Fred Brooks

  Character, Thinking, Perfect

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Frederick Brooks, 1975.

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• I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

  Brian McKnight

  Creating, People, Tickets

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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• Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

  May Sarton

  Laughter, Past, Doe

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• A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Real, Simple, Might

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.3

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• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

  John Howe

  Art, Inspiration, Europe

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• The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

  Bernard Malamud

  Past, Experience, Clay

  'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20

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• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Faith, Men, Spirit

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin

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• His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Selfish, Ambition

  Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”

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• There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

  Diane Arbus

  Quality, Answers, Demand

  "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

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• It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girlfriend, Icons, Giving

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• The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

  Julian Jaynes

  Sea, Eruption, Red

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

  Suetonius

  Angel, Mirrors, Balance

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• Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Spare Time, Spares

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• When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.

  Alice Cooper

  Brother, Character, Doors

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

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• Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Character, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Moments Of Being”, p.100, Random House

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Beautiful, Fashion, Simple

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• There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Reality, Style

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• Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

  Marguerite Henry

  Heart, Water, Stories

  Marguerite Henry (2012). “Misty of Chincoteague”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

  Lilian Whiting

  Dream, Art, Venice

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• Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

  Joyce Johnson

  Artist, Seems

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.123, Penguin

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