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• I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Want, Able, Scream

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• There have been great things that happened to me.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Has Beens, Happened

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• I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

  Paris Hilton

  Needs, Attention, Pay

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

  Winona Ryder

  Hollywood, Fountain, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  Euripides

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  Karel Capek

  Philosophy, Medicine, Gentleman

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Important, About Yourself

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• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Imagination, Brain

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.28, Ravenio Books

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• It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

  Polly Adler

  Writing, College, Degrees

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

  Adam Clarke

  Fullness, Filled, Stills

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• The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

  Glenn Frey

  Looks, Aging, Young

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• When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Thinking, Childhood

  "Travel is nasty". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

  Propertius

  Enough

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• It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Roots, Facts

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• Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Before Death, Action, Accomplish

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• The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

  Nicholson Baker

  People, Upset, Want

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Jobs, Husband, Moving

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• The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Novelists, Organize

  "Between the Lines with Sophie Kinsella". Interview with Andrea Sachs, content.time.com. July 21, 2005.

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• The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.

  Irving Azoff

  Artist, Technology, Marketing

  "Business Matters: Irving Azoff On Battling Business Models; Spotify; YouTube + RightsFlow" by Glenn Peoples, www.billboard.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

  Lauren Bush

  Thinking, World, Politician

  "He's a really good guy". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2007.

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• In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

  Richard Burr

  Challenges, Working Together, Looks

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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