- Education
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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
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
- Early Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
- Bull Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020