"No great thing happens suddenly."
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"I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation."
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"People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day."
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"It is a great thing to know your vices."
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"Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see."
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"I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible."
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"All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art."
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"I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked."
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"We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire."
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"The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand."
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"It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan."
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"I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
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"What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"
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"The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York."
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"I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it."
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"The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in."
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"That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head."
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"If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done."
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"And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots."
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"The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life"
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