Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 2172.
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The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5 -
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
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The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
Cosmos (1980) -
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
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The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
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