Great Things Quotes - Page 36

• The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

  Unknown

  Soul, Energy, One Line

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• Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite as freely again. You're aware, from that point onward, of the kinds of things critics might say about it. You're aware of the kinds of things your publishers might like and dislike about it. You're half-aware of marketing strategies - of all the stuff around the book. Whereas with your very first piece of fiction, if you're lucky, those things barely occur to you at all.

  Nick Laird

  Grateful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.

  Carey Mercer

  Hate, Hero, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the Pentecostals have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God. I think Baptists have done a great thing, oh, Protestants, I should say, have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God, so whenever Satan tries to divide, it's just really God multiplying.

  Mark Lowry

  Thinking, Trying, Done

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Fairy Tale, Fairy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things.

  Rita Williams-Garcia

  Brother, Grandparent, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.

  Martin Amis

  War, Rejection, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction -
  this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in someone else's head, in three, five different people's heads. Suddenly, the principle of "Don't do anything to anyone that you wouldn't want done to you" becomes real in people's minds. That's a fantastic achievement if fiction is indeed partly responsible for it. That's a great thing to be a part of. In the end, then, I don't know if writers have legislated, but they have civilized.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Achievement, Empathy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the great thing about art is that you can create it anywhere. I made a record of cover tunes on my laptop in hotel rooms throughout Europe last year and it is still very much a "Kasey Anderson" record.

  Kasey Anderson

  Art, Thinking, Hotel

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• As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing there, amongst all these people, and it's this great thing to see people being active and actually standing up for what they believe in and still letting the government know that there are people who will still sacrifice a portion of their day to stand up for what they care about, but I'm just thinking to myself, "God, man, these protests have been going on throughout I-don't-even-know-how-many years, and here we are again."

  Mr. Lif

  Believe, Sacrifice, Men

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• The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Reading, Character, Literature

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• I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Running, Children

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• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  Odette Annable

  Fall, Second Chance, People

  "Odette Yustman Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

  Kevin Bacon

  Mean, Winning, Opportunity

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• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Believe, Accomplishment

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.209, Basic Books

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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Nature, Determination

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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• The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

  John Boehner

  Lying, Opportunity, Majority

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• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  Danny Boyle

  Awards, Ego, Stuff

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

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• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Democracy, Way

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• Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

  Jo Brand

  Book, Laughing, Unattractive

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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• I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Art, Character

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• It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Doe, Great Men

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• My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, California, Jazz

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• Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

  Sandra Bullock

  Orange, Long, African American

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