Quotes with great-great

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Callimachus O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
    Epigrams Epigram 14; translation from J. W. Mackail (ed.) S
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Camille Pissarro Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Howard Nemerov Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Joan Didion Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 141
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Pullman Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bojana Novakovic On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.
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  • William Hamilton On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
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  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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