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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

God, I had great people in my life.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

I have great respect for the past.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.