Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Richard Nixon Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Trillin One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Affleck One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Jane Austen One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anish Kapoor One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bill Nelson One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Barack Obama One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Alan Bean One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Carrie Fisher One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Henry Ford One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Nido Qubein One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
    Nido Qubein
    American businessman (1948 - )
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