Great Things Quotes - Page 38

• One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Magic, Gone, Shapes

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• There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

  Bobby Flay

  Hurt, Team, Friendly

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• That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Humorous, Phones, Comedy

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• The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Truth Is, Transcendent

  "Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.

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• The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Mean, Way

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• The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

  Kathy Griffin

  Jobs, Anger, Bitterness

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• The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

  Matt Groening

  Home, Tv Shows, Two

  "Matt Groening: I could easily fill up my entire life just working on Futurama". Interview with Simon Gage, metro.co.uk. March 8, 2012.

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• I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

  Dave Grohl

  Tragedy, Done, Imagine

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• It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

  Lev Grossman

  Literature, Feels

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• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

  Patricia Heaton

  Children, Husband, Feel Better

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• The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Generosity, People, United States

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Liberty, Want

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• The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

  Thomas Huxley

  Respect, Self, World

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

  Jesse Jackson

  Positive, Jesus, Modesty

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

  Elton John

  Inspirational, Stars, Rocks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

  Alan King

  New Year, Father, Kids

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• The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mcdonalds, Different, Salad

  "Beyonce Justifies McDonald's Contract" by wenn.com, November 4, 2004.

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• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Rapper, Compliment

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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• There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Emo Love

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• The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

  Julia Leigh

  Long, Long Time

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• I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kids, Remember, Life Experience

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• The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

  Mike Love

  Mean, People, Getting Older

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Sincere

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

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