- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.
- Geometry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Great War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.
- Geometry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always great when people take interest in your work.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020