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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
No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
— Henry F. Ashurst
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
— Ada Yonath
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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
Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
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
all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.
— Anne Lamott
You live once ... Why not live to be great?
— Luke Rockhold
It's great to be here.
— A.D. Posey
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
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
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
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
— Jules Verne
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
— Pliny The Elder
It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
— Patrick Duffy
A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered inmy own work, could be attributed to testimonies. — Raul Hilberg
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
— Bertrand Russell
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm hungry and we're having a great day then I'm slobbering all over you. It'll be amazing.
— Bijou Hunter
The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.
— Barack Obama
You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
— J.K. Rowling
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
— Miles Franklin
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.
— Deion Sanders
Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I look very different from how people expect me to be ... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.
— Kate Winslet
To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
— Frederic Chopin
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
— Howard Schultz
It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Good is not enough. You've got to be great.
— Simon Cowell
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
— Rachel G. Fox
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
We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer
— Richard Peck
I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.
— Will Ferrell
The great trues are too important to be new.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
— Donald Miller
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
— Wolfgang Puck
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
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
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
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 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
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
— Josh Groban
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
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.
— Andrew Luck
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
It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
— Alessandro Nivola
Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy.
— Debasish Mridha
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
Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.
— Michelle Stuart
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
Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.
— Wayne Gretzky
Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.
— Matthew Lillard
He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.
— Alan Hollinghurst
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
— Albert Einstein
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
'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
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
