Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • John Ruskin It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • David Foster Wallace It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
    Grap zonder einde (1996)
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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  • Bailey Chase It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • O. Henry It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Buffalo Bill It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Liza Minnelli It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Bryson It would be a great abuse of my position to write that it was Northwest Airlines that treated us in this shoddy and inexcusable way, so I won't.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • John Frederick Boyes It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Brad Sherman It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Andy Warhol It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Betsy Brandt It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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