Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Buffalo Bill My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
    Source: Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Oscar Wilde My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bjorn Borg My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • John Wesley My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Muhammad Ali My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Ben Stiller My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Billy Crudup My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bill Rancic My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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