Great People Quotes - Page 9

• Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Military, People

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  Nas

  Moving, Careers, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

  Lea Michele

  School, Play, People

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• I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Play, People, Scripts

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• I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, People, Mountain

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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, People, Produce

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• I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Thinking, People

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• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  Daniel Craig

  Crazy, Hero, People

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• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Attitude, Death Eaters, People

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• Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

  Steve Coogan

  Interesting, People, Disappointing

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

  Jo Brand

  Attitude, Mean, Men

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

  Jo Brand

  People, Way, Vote

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Different, Lucky

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2003.

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• Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Hands, People, Understanding

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• In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Play, People, Mind

  "A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905".

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• Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

  Marianne Williamson

  Encouragement, Greatness, People

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• Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Hero

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• Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life And Love, People, Controversy

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• I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Determination, Integrity, Hard Work

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• All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mother, People, Faults

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• All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great Communist Party of China. Provided we constantly observe the directives of the Party, we are sure to win.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Army, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

  Nido R Qubein

  Perseverance, People, Gears

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• The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, People, Stories

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• But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Blessed, Ideas

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview With Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, Light, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.55, Grove Press

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