Famous Quotes: Great

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
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I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
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We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
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