Terrific Quotes - Page 6

There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it’s harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.

Gian Fulgoni

Data, World, Digital

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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Geddy Lee

Song, Years, Soul

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A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.

Jerry Sabloff

Book, Thinking, Impact

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There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

Trevor Phillips

Running, Real, Ambition

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A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Sally Kirkland

Awards, Race, Color

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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Alan Cohen

Healing, Roots, Negative Experiences

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A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

Nick Mancuso

Jobs, Independent, Night

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

Oswald J. Smith

Pay, Used, Has Beens

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Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.

Mark Goddard

Actresses, Hell

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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

Arthur Ashe

Sports, People, Tennis

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Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

Hubert H. Humphrey

People, Would Be, Way

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It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

Edith Schaeffer

Dream, Creativity, Frustration

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Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Tom Chapin

Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

Del Close

Laughing, Connections, Revelations

Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing

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Hills are terrific for running

Bill Rodgers

Running, Hills

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I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

Bo Sanchez

Facts, Accepted, Mediocre

Bo Sanchez “You Have The Power To Create Love”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

Blythe Danner

Jobs, New York, Lucky

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If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

George Carlin

Work, Pay, Ifs

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The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

Barry S. Strauss

Baseball, Workout, Wings

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A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Sam Haskins

Photography, New York, Party

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The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

Ken Bruen

Writing, Joy, Missing

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Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Karin Slaughter

Meg, Phantoms, My Favorite

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a terrific match winner in any Condition

Sourav Ganguly

Dhoni, Winner, Singh

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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Air, Together

Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

David Suzuki

Ignorance, Thinking, Ideas

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.53, Greystone Books

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