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3 December 2020 Joe Theismann

Rugby is great. The players don’t wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

3 December 2020 Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

3 December 2020 Gordon Ramsay

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

3 December 2020 Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great fortune is a great slavery.

3 December 2020 Frederic Bastiat

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

3 December 2020 Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

3 December 2020 Ron White

I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

3 December 2020 Donald Trump

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, ‘Make America great again.’

3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

3 December 2020 John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

3 December 2020 James Dean

To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

3 December 2020 Thomas Keller

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

3 December 2020 Alice Cooper

Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

3 December 2020 Donald Trump

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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