- Me
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
- Great Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
- Fulfilment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020