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• When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

  Joel Siegel

  Brilliant, Critics, Performances

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• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

  Pat Metheny

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

  John Baldacci

  Opportunity, Two, Maine

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• The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Sea, Way, Tomorrow

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• He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Suits, Circumstances

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• The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

  Lee Haney

  Healthy, Training, Way

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• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  Barack Obama

  Time, Ideas, Perfection

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• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Three, Way

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, Thinking

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• Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Cheer, Men

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• Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Cooks, Spoilt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

  Augustus Hare

  People, Example, Vain

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• Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Able, Speak, Brilliant Ideas

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Jobs, Dubious, Would Be

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• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Apples, Simplicity

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• I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Brilliant, Constitution, Made

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

  P. T. Barnum

  Money, Fire, Masters

  "Money: How To Get It, How To Keep It".

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• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Effort

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• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Men, Hype

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Giving, Battle

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Excellence, Teach

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• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Morning, Rain

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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