- 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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- Nov 07, 2020