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When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
— William J. Clinton
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
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
He's cutting off circulation to my balls! If you want great grandchildren, woman, do something! Joshua sputtered
— R.L. Mathewson
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble.
— Peter Hollingworth
'Twilight' fans are great.
— Chaske Spencer
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
— Caleb Cushing
I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.
— Jim Broadbent
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
— Jacqueline Leo
It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.
— Curtis Jackson
I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause.
— William Shakespeare
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot
— Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
— Stuart Weitzman
I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does.
— Kellan Lutz
I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
— Sally Field
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.
— Frankie Avalon
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
— Warren Zevon
It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all ... What a brutal job!
— Silvio Berlusconi
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
— George Bernard Shaw
Together we can do great things.
— Mother Teresa
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
— Gustave Flaubert
I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?
— Jourdan Dunn
Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
— Lara St. John
It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.
— Torii Hunter
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
— Nick Faldo
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
— George R R Martin
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
— Jennifer Gilmore
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
— Zhang Xin
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
— Josh Groban
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
— David Chang
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
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
BOOKSELLER: Yep, we're having a midnight opening.
CUSTOMER: Great! What time? — Jen Campbell
I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.
— William, Saroyan
In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
— Tom Watson
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
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
— Eli Roth
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
— Chuck Close
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.
— John Nelson Darby
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
— John Le Carre
Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.
— Ryan Giggs
It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team.
— Peyton Manning
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
— Roy Moore
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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
From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
We have great respect for the people who have great respect for others!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
— Pharrell Williams
Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up.
— Euginia Herlihy
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
— William Hogarth
Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
— Zakk Wylde
Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity.
— Herta Muller
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
— George Henry Lewes
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
— Brunello Cucinelli
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
Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.
— Victor Hugo
Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass.
— Julia Quinn
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
— Richard Morris
In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.
— Ann Coulter
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
— Bill Budge
When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor.
— Albert Camus
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
— Jeff Sharlet
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
— Charles Spurgeon
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
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
— Louis Farrakhan
I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.
— Dave Goldberg
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.
— Andrew Luck
Open your eyes; you will see the greatness of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
— Michael Caine
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
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
— Marv Levy
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
Who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe?
— Jostein Gaarder
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
— Lance Armstrong
Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
— Sun Myung Moon
The Prince of the Air may rule the world, but last I checked the Great Magician still owns the place.
— Mark Andrew Poe
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
— Peter Gabriel
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
— Gloria Vanderbilt