Quotes with great-sounding

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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boomer Esiason The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Brendan Fraser The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bonnie Hunt The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Cam Newton The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Bobby Jindal The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Boris Vian The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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