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So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.

UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Any great teacher is a great student.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.