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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
- French Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020