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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln
Tags: Truth Out Only
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.


Charles Simmons
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Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.


Helena Christensen
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I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.


Fridtjof Nansen
Tags: Me Then Behind
A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
Huey Lewis
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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.


Lewis Hamilton
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Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
Joey Santiago
Tags: Time You Things
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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.


Elaine Stritch
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
Meg Ryan
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.


Yash Chopra
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.


Steven Tyler
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
Franco Harris
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You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.


Tommy Chong
You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
Fran Tarkenton
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If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
Graham Nelson
Tags: Best About Will
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.


Jake Kasdan
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