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Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2159.

  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Bassler What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Henry Ford What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Maya Angelou Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Pat Riley When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Vilanch When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Eugene V. Debs When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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  • Walter Bagehot When great questions end, little parties begin.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Boris Spassky When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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