Really Amazing Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

  Liv Tyler

  Shopping, Target, Stuff

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• If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

  Marissa Mayer

  Feelings, Risk, Scared

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• To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

  Naomie Harris

  Grateful, Kind

  "Naomie Harris THE FIRST GRADER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Want, Impossible

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• ... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.

  Phil Lesh

  Music, Play, Guy

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• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  K. D. Lang

  Travel, Keys, World

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• If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sex, Gay, Fighting

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• But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Blow, Opportunity, People

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• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mother, Teacher, School

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• I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Creative, Directors, Paper

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• I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

  Whitney Cummings

  Strong Women, Powerful, Writing

  "I Wrote The Jokes That People Assumed Men Would Write". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

  Hugh Jackman

  Ideas, People, World

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• It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

  Brandon Routh

  Yesterday, Legacy, Finals

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

  Kristin Davis

  Israel, Feels

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• The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

  Ann Coulter

  Florida, Finals, Literature

  "Coulter: Liberals are evil" by Bobby Eagle, www.freerepublic.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Guy

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• There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

  Matt Groening

  Independent, Drawing, Hands

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

  Martina McBride

  School, People, President

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• When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Silly, Indecisive, Easier

  "Wanted: one leading man". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2004.

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• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  Lorin Maazel

  New York, New Relationship, Opportunity

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• I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

  Jonathan Demme

  Strong, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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