Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 2185.

  • Abbie Hoffman The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Bing Gordon The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Barry Eichengreen The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bobby Bonilla The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Ben Harper The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Robert Browning The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Ben Bernanke The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aldous Huxley The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bern Williams The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • Alexander Chase The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Bill Gates The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Heinrich Heine The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Paxton Hood The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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