Great Things Quotes - Page 26

• If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

  Henry Rollins

  Lost Love, Awful, September

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• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  Tim Ferriss

  Lonely, Ninety Nine, People

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• In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Dollars, Would Be

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• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Sacrifice, Broken

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• The great thing about being up early on a Sunday is nothing.

  Doug Benson

  Sunday, Up Early

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• Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Expectations, Achieve

  "Jeb Bush Speaks Out". Education Next Interview, educationnext.org. November 12, 2014.

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• The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Art, Reflection, People

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• Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.

  Henry Blodget

  Children, People, Wife

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

  William Mapother

  Firsts, Film, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Bridges, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for great content and good stuff. They don't care where it comes from, they'll latch onto it.

  Mike Vogel

  Fans, Care, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Hero, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Focus, Want, Pressure

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• I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

  Bill Simmons

  Football, Team, Winning

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• That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

  Michael Strahan

  Football, Yelling, Performing Live

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• The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

  Jean Monnet

  Men, Your Side, Waiting

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• One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

  Eugene Mirman

  People, Want, Entertainment

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• The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

  Dov Davidoff

  Family, People, Disappoint

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• For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.

  Christian McBride

  Opportunity, Player, Bass

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• The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Golf, Games

  Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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• A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

  Dolly Parton

  Gypsy, Kind, All Kinds

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Player, Band, Information

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• I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Player, Two

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• Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.

  Katy Rose

  School, Mean, Kids

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