Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 2174.
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There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
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