Great Joy Quotes - Page 3

• It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.

  Kate Winslet

  Dog, Jobs, Fun

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

  William Feather

  Wise, Men, Knowing

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• ...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Coffee, People

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 1-3: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.241, Random House

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• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  Walter Wangerin

  Healing, People, Joy

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

  Kenny Rogers

  Successful, Thinking, Joy

  "Gay Adoption Controversy in Boston; Interview with Kenny Rogers". "American Morning", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

  Stephen Mangan

  Reading, Book, Character

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• One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

  Stephen Daldry

  Jobs, Joy, Different

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• The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  Joy, Desire, Increase

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Creative, Feel Good

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  Jack Kirby

  Long, Joy, Fiction

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

  Rob Letterman

  Kids, Laughing, Joy

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.

  Maureen McGovern

  Prayer, Joy, Singing

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• I realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the Internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know? It's important to make new things. It's important to make culture, rather than simply reference it. I love a good cultural reference, and it's one of the great joys in my life, but it has to all be in balance with the core job, which is to make something new. And that sort of brings me around to why I started talking about my fondness for marijuana.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Marijuana, Talking

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Giving, Joy

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• I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Joy, Playing Music

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Choices, Joy, Happiness Is A Choice

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• I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

  John McCain

  Appreciation, Joy, Palin

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

  Anita Briem

  Strong, Character, Independent

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• I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Joy, Levels, New Friends

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Joy, Come Up, Humbling Experiences

  "Chris Hemsworth: Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain Hazed Me Harder Than My Brothers". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 11, 2016.

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• A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Car, Joy

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• It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Believe, Joy

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• It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Joy, Mind, World

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