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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

No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. — Henry F. Ashurst

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted. — Adolf Hitler

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

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

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here. — Brandy Clark

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 in
my 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

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there. — Asif Kapadia

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin

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

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. — Tom Rath

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 always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great. — Candace Pert

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. — Daya Kudari

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

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. — Will Graham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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