Quotes with over-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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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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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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  • Ernest Hemingway Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Helen Rowland Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Martin Amis Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
    London Fields (1989)
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Bobby Fischer Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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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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  • Barry Diller Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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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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  • Calvin Harris Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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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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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Seneca Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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