Famous Quotes: Great

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
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I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
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The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
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Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.
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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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