Great Things Quotes - Page 14

• No, I think marriage is a great thing.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking

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• UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

  Steven Horsford

  Example, Company

  "Nevada congressman really delivers", www.politico.com. February 23, 2014.

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• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Keys, Government, Hands

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• The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.

  George W. Bush

  America, Want

  "President Bush Speaks at Ellis Island". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2001.

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• I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stupid, America, People

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• Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

  Willie McCovey

  Reading, Careers, Persons

  "Paving a way for humble Willie Mac" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2003.

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• Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

  Jon Runyan

  Blessed, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

  Jennifer Niven

  Different, This Life

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

  Neil Jordan

  People, Dull, Made

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.

  Young Jeezy

  People, Losing Friends, Guy

  Interview with Dan Hyman, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

  Joel Schumacher

  Obsession

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Press conference, collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

  Robin Williams

  Ideas, Long, Tasks

  "Robin Williams Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Limits, Capacity, Tested

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Thinking, Race

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• We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Retiring

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

  Michael Stipe

  America, Fine, Ifs

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• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Writing, Thinking, Sick

  "Of course you can lose yourself" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

  Deacon Jones

  Committed, Ifs

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• The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Ends, Mark

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• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  M. Ward

  Smell, Childhood, Able

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• The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

  Grant Hill

  Sports, Proving Yourself, Prove

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• At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Literature

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• The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

  Peter Mayle

  Wall, Thinking, Looks

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• Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

  Ines de La Fressange

  Life Is, Seems

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• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Thinking, Challenges, Challenge Yourself

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