Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Harry S. Truman Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ben Affleck Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bob Beamon Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • James Russell Lowell Sorrow is the great idealizer.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Peggy Noonan Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Bill Bradley Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Success has always been a great liar.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • David Rockefeller Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
    David Rockefeller
    American banker (1915 - 2017)
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  • Virgil Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
    Bob Thaves
     
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  • Barbara Hershey Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Antonio Guterres Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
    Source: Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Donald Trump Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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