Brilliant Quotes

• You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

  Michael Dell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Michael Dell: Taking The Direct Approach", www.entrepreneur.com. October 9, 2008.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Want, Littles

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• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Kindness

  Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.

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• The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

  Michael Jackson

  Bees, Great Music, Bee Gees

  "Michael Jackson, the King of Pop" by Jel D. Lewis Jones, 2005.

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• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  Keith Richards

  Squares, Two, Feet

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Struggle

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• There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

  Coleman Young

  Wine, Water, Gold

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• There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Numbers, People, Masters

  Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 12, 2005.

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• We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

  Ronnie Wood

  Sex, Believe, Pals

  "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.

  Kiera Cass

  Hair, Rose, Beautiful Girl

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• God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

  Alfred Adler

  God, Stars, Fate

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• The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Business, Entrepreneur

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

  George H. W. Bush

  Love, Peace, Stars

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Attitude, Literature

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• When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

  Ernie Harwell

  Careers, Brooklyn, Height

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Emotional, Directors

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• My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humble

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• The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Dream, Reason

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• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Lying, Don't Lie To Me

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• No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

  Bell Hooks

  Women, Writing, Black

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• Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, May

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