Great Things Quotes - Page 27

• There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

  Suzanne Somers

  Cancer, Childhood, Three

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Team, Technology

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• It's kind of hard to find something that will get your juices flowing if you're somewhat critical. I have a hard time finding great things for myself in '94 and certainly in '95.

  Dick Latvala

  Hard Times, Juice, Kind

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it takes.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Balls, Way

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

  Frederick The Great

  Risk, Great Risk

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• I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

  Jimmy Wayne

  Believe, Heart, Simple

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Real, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

  Steve Coogan

  Fuel, Sides, Comedy

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• This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.

  Rory McIlroy

  Men, Long, People

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Humility, Differences

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• We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

  Dwight L. Moody

  May, Able, Deals

  Dwight L Moody (1884). “To the Work!: Exhortations to Christians”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.

  Paul of the Cross

  Fall, Humility, Heart

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• Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

  John McCain

  Promise, Done, May

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• A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Ordinary, May

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• A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Vision, Intellectual, Way

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1989). “Bulletin”

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• We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Believe, Successful

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Knowing, People, Done

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• The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.

  Seth Rogen

  Reading, Next, Tarantino

  Source: variety.com

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• Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.

  Marc Almond

  Believe, People, Singing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, People, Television

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Programmatic is a great thing. Let's be clear there's a zillion websites. It's extremely difficult to address messages.

  Maurice Levy

  Addresses, Messages, Difficult

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

  Matt de la Pena

  College, Guilt, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Writing, Games

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Marine

  Source: therumpus.net

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