Great Year Quotes - Page 2

• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, New Year, Mean

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• the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

  Dave Beard

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

  Casey Robinson

  Movie, Stars, Moon

  1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

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• Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Movie, Doors, Odyssey

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.227, RosettaBooks

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• Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

  George M. Cohan

  Movie, Thank You, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Greed, Wimps

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Lists

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, 80s And 90s

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Wind, Gone

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Cinema

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that.

  Brett Hull

  Years, Best Year, Forget

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• I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

  Ben Affleck

  Movie, Years, Actors

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• 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Years, Political

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