The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
I believe there are some great things that I’ve taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life.
If you have somebody who’s brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
I don’t presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.
It’s a great game, and it’s done great things for me and my family, but the bottom line is when I’m done, I want to be able to walk away and be everything I need to be for my family.
That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it reverses.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
Honestly, I could talk to you for seven hours and not run out of great things to say about David Tennant.
I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things. But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart.
When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who’s chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
The success of the storytellers – we’re only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience – it’s so much a part of their enjoyment. It’s one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world – and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
I am going to continue to get better and do great things.
One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn’t care less about your love life.
In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that’s a blessing.
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can’t be too precious about your ideas.
When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you’ve done and all these great people that you’ve worked with.
One of the great things about kids is they haven’t heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.
When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things – and that has worked as a great model for me.
The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It’s one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress – the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.
I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.
I’m very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it’s one of the great things about making movies is it’s a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character’s costume and what that might tell about your character.
Things could be done better over there at Newcastle, but Leicester have given me the opportunity to do great things hopefully.
I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She’d buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
I’m very ambitious, musically – I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
God hasn’t given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.
We do a lot of great things, but it’s a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that’s what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
Being from a place like Chicago you have so much pride in it, there’s so many great things that come out of there, but to me not enough people from the city shine a spotlight on the good things that go on with us or the fact that we are innovative and set trends.
We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus – we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.
The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.
Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.
To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
I did a film, ‘X+Y’, in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It’s a subject I didn’t know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It’s one of the great things about what I do.
One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!
Mr. Mourinho is a wonderful coach and did great things at Porto, winning trophies, and I will respect that.
One of the great things about ‘Girls’ is that each of these characters really does represent a human being. There are definitely relatable aspects to all of these folks, and certainly within my close friend group, those personalities very much exist.
I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.
There are nothing but great things that come out of dancing. People are laughing, people are uncomfortable, it’s an ice breaker.
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
That’s one of the great things about acting – you get to pretend you’re somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets – people who’ve come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don’t want to think about, or can’t say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act.
