Terrific Quotes - Page 16

• In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Play, People

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

  Tony Bennett

  Fun, Mistake, Team

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• I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

  Jim Starlin

  Vacation, Land, Mold

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• Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

  Lee Ritenour

  Singers, South, South Africa

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• GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Firsts, Robust

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• Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.

  John P. Kotter

  Strong, Team, Organization

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• I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

  Dorothy Stratten

  Powerful, Nice, Men

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!

  Ken Ludwig

  Information, Wonderful, Apps

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• One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Smart, Mean

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• The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.

  Peter Bayne

  Stars, Volcanoes, Hands

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• You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

  John Glenn

  Dream, Young, Folks

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• Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Powerful, Book, Character

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• I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Knowing Who You Are, Understanding

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• I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

  Leslie Moonves

  Team, Pride, News

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• Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.

  Khoi Vinh

  Fun, Hard Work, People

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• I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

  Don McLean

  Mean, World, Given

  "'American Pie' Doesn't Belong To Saratoga Springs". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Past

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

  Dick Miller

  Fun, Father, Son

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• Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing style, Nightclub City is a gritty social history of America's most glitzy fantasies.

  Debby Applegate

  Writing, Character, Nightlife

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• Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science.  It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

  David Helvarg

  Sea, Blue, Survival

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• I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

  William McKeen

  Book, Rocks, Musical

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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Communication, Skills, People

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Team

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