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“The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't ha...”
“Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know wh...”
“Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.”
“I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.”
“A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.”
“I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.”
“Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.”
“Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.”
“You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.”
“Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education it did a great job for me. It deserves...”
“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more ...”
“SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.”
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
“All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, ...”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris ...”
“If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You ...”
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”
