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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
- Great Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
- Marketing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.
- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
- Nov 07, 2020