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" Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. "
Steven Wright
Country
Live
Skiing
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" Don't be humble... you're not that great. "
Golda Meir
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Great
" I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. "
Steven Wright
Bible
Twice
Two
" The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations. "
John Muir
Perseverance
Great
Good
" My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. "
Isabel Allende
Great
My Life
Moving On
" Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' "
Tristan Wilds
Calm
Great
Relax
" They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. "
Sarah Silverman
Got
Uncle
Trying
" Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' "
Quincy Jones
Small
Great
Every Day
" The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something. "
Sam Rivers
Great
Reach
Musicians
" Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise
Some
Great
" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "
Colin Powell
Great
Solution
Argument
" I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it. "
Steven Wright
Instant
Know
Time
" Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see. "
Steven Wright
Think
Life
Looking
" Only great minds can afford a simple style. "
Stendhal
Style
Minds
Great
" The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. "
Steven Wright
Me
Other
Day
" Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. "
Thomas W. Higginson
Great Men
Humor
Men
" It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. "
John Locke
Ocean
Great
Depths
" I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. "
John Steinbeck
Artist
Mind
Great
" I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. "
Emilio Estevez
You
Good
Think
" I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. "
Isaac Newton
Me
Ocean
Truth
" I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.' "
Steven Wright
Bank
Money
Going
" I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost. "
Steven Wright
Like
Friend
Imagination
" Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wake Up
Success
Great
" The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. "
Chinua Achebe
Diversity
You
Problem
" My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. "
Bjorn Borg
Never Give Up
Persistence
I Am
" A great man is the man who does something for the first time. "
Alexander Smith
Man
Great
Great Man
" Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Small Things
Together
Small
" Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. "
Muhammad Yunus
Money
Great
Happiness
" Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. "
Nat Turner
Society
Great
Myself
" I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. "
Channing Tatum
You
Memories
Doing
" What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man
He
Great