Quotes with great-sounding

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  • Arthur Levitt Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
    Second inaugural address
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Okri Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Our work is to present things that are as they are.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bud Grant Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carine Roitfeld People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bob Newhart People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Blair Redford People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.
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  • Cate Blanchett People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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