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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
greatness shy enough
You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough Chris Colfer
greatness men yams
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. Chinua Achebe
greatness where-you-are depends
Greatness depends on where you are coming from. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
greatness bears mark
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark. Dave Chappelle
serious comedy kind
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. Alan Arkin
serious bits
As you get older, you get a bit more serious. Bryan Ferry
serious repercussions
Repercussions are serious and they will take you places. Bryan Clay
serious asthma
Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma. Cathy Freeman
serious crime negligence
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime. William Shakespeare
serious sense-of-humor adore
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues. Benedict Cumberbatch
serious seventeen
No one's serious at seventeen. Arthur Rimbaud
serious sound artistic
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. Dee Dee Ramone
serious problem climate-change
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. Bill Nye
scene leafs dreary
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored. Charles Dickens
scenes
You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically. Luke Pasqualino
scene matured
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. Diablo Cody
scene
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. Ron Livingston
scene tend
I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing. Shanley Caswell
scene novel written
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place. Bret Easton Ellis
scene
Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv. Eva Mendes
scenes thinking unlike
When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut, Mark Spragg
scene ready lit
I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. Debra Winger