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I want to be great, something special. — Sugar Ray Leonard

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss — Jamie Catto

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. — Mencius

It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. — Ada Yonath

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. — Sandra Bullock

My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this. — Jenny Han

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. — Elaine Dundy

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream. — Bill Courtney

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing. — Starhawk

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. — Ben Jonson

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience. — Wes Anderson

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? — William Cobbett

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot — Elisabeth Elliot

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great. — Publilius Syrus

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. — Tony Fadell

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show. — Tommy Tune

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life! — Jackson Rathbone

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. — Samuel Beckett

The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. — William James

Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be. — Joyce Carol Oates

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one. — Alessandro Nivola

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. — Douglas MacArthur

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be. — Alan Hollinghurst

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. — Edmund Burke

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor. — Matthew Lillard

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun! — Edwin Land

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles. — Pete Sampras

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you. — James C. Collins

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field. — Lawrence Timmons

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy. — Martin Mull

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. — Albert Einstein

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. — Alex Shoumatoff

Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy. — Debasish Mridha

Even great men can be corrupted — J. Edgar Hoover

For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear. — Robin S. Sharma

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word. — Richard Branson

What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored. — S. Jae-Jones

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. — Thomas Adams

may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation b say continually, "Great is the LORD! — Anonymous

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial. — Michelle Stuart

Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness. — N. T. Wright

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing. — Gene Pitney

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. — Helen Clark

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. — Theodore Roosevelt

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. — Jim Butcher

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. — N.D. Wilson

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way. — Brian Greene

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human. — Donald Miller

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. — Josh Groban

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great. — Pharrell Williams

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground. — Christopher Marlowe

Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true. — Benjamin

CUSTOMER:Will you be open so I can buy the new Harry Potter book?
BOOKSELLER: Yep, we're having a midnight opening.
CUSTOMER: Great! What time? — Jen Campbell

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. — Tom Heinsohn

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. — Jeff Raikes

I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now. — Andrew Luck

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. — Clarence Darrow

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great. — Andrea Bocelli

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting. — Melissa Brown

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. — Beatrix Of The Netherlands

Great heart will not be denied. — J.R.R. Tolkien

She wasn't afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength. — Louise Penny

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be! — Mary Morrissey

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. — Viggo Mortensen

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. — Dave Ramsey

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness. — Mark Mirabello

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. — Charles Simmons

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

'Grey's Anatomy,' that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out. — Jesse Plemons

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility. — Geoffrey Litwack

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great. — Danny Strong

If you don't stand sincere by your words
how sincere can the people be?
Take great care over words, treasure them. — Lao-Tzu

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman. — Wolfgang Puck

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. — Ethan Zuckerman

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. — Laura Dern

That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect. — Jodi Picoult

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. — Mick Jagger