Legends Quotes - Page 3

• History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

  Victor Hugo

  Truth

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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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• A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Fame

  Quoted in International Herald Tribune, 17 July 1991

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• I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Who I Am, Lakers

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• All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Memories, Lying, People

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• We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

  Art Hoppe

  Change, Money, These Days

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• If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

  Christine Feehan

  Vampire, Creatures, Ifs

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Dark Prince: Number 1 in series”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Asleep in lap of legends old.

  John Keats

  Lap

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.72

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• After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Believe, Made, Myth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

  Kenneth Anger

  Glowing, America, Generations

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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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• I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

  Miles Davis

  Done, Miles, Call Me

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• In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

  Tina Brown

  Crafts, Journalism, Ends

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• Experience is a great teacher.

  John Legend

  Teacher, Reality, Experience

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• I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

  Bobby Heenan

  Sports, Believe, Wwe

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• My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Garlands, Destroyed

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

  Peter O'Toole

  Protest, Daft

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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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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Ohio

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• I played classical as a kid.

  John Legend

  Children, Kids

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• I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

  Bobby Darin

  Want, Made, Faster

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• If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

  David Strathairn

  Roles, Materials, Persons

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• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Funeral, Passing Away

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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