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" A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. "

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" There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing. "

Christopher Lee

" The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. "

" Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want. "

" Nothing beats a great smile. "

" Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. "

" Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind. "

" There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. "

Sojourner Truth

" I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. "

" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

Mike Krzyzewski

" There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister. "

" Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. "

Lara Flynn Boyle

" I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.' "

" Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. "

William Shakespeare

" Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. "

" Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do. "

" It is a great boost for confidence in a squad when there is not just one or two players scoring goals, but the whole team is contributing. "

" Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. "

" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

" While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare. "

" Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. "

Saint Augustine

" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. "

" He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. "

" Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. "

Swami Vivekananda

" It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. "