Great Quotes

"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language"

Martin Buber, Philosopher

"I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good"

Magnus Carlsen

"I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it"

Will Smith, Actor

"I believe in the power of people. I believe that when we come together, we can achieve great things"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is"

Al Unser, Athlete

"A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established"

John Cotton Dana, Author

"I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did"

Lauren Holly, Actress

"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk"

John Leguizamo, Comedian

"Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one"

Julian Lennon, Musician

"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82"

Dave Brubeck, Musician

"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself"

George Crabbe, Poet

"The people really are what make New York City great"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"I had a great year and left my guts out on the field"

Alex Rodriguez, Athlete

"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt"

William Vickrey, Educator

"The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences"

Sarah Caldwell, Celebrity

"That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo"

Richard H. Davis

"One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world"

William Shenstone, Poet

"Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing"

Walker Percy, Writer

"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

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