- 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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
- Great Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
- Meditation
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- Nov 07, 2020
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
- Quit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
- Shall
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- Nov 07, 2020
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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- Nov 07, 2020