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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. -- Oliver Stone
The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over. -- Richard Cabral
I always say the greats just get better. -- Randy Jackson
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats. -- Dick Cavett
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If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats. -- Raphael Saadiq
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. -- Robert Cray
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it. -- Don Rickles
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. -- Murray Walker
The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats. -- John Cleese
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them. -- Chrissie Hynde
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. -- Whitney Houston
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. -- Timothy Dalton
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats. -- A. R. Rahman
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats. -- Kevin Chamberlin
Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship. -- LeBron James
When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises. -- Richard Lewis
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model. -- Martin Jacques
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now. -- R. Kelly
I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket. -- Ice Cube
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history. -- Michael Phelps
I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy. -- Todd Lowe
Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness. -- Miguel Cotto
It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way. -- Wladimir Klitschko
People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back. -- Brandon Flowers
Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs. -- Howie Carr
Study the greats and become greater -- Michael Jackson
Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats. -- Dick Cavett
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work. -- Sara Genn
It's better to have a great team than a team of greats. -- Simon Sinek
In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them. -- Laozi
You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals. -- Lou Engle
In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats. -- Raekwon
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus. -- Joanna Lumley
I'd love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. -- Jimmie Johnson
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art. -- Gene Black
The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot -- Macklemore
We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album. -- Eyedea
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day. -- David Naughton
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them." -- Chrissie Hynde
I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially. -- Reggie Watts
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. -- Hassan Rouhani
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors. -- Jim Kaat
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me. -- Patti LuPone
To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it. -- Dylan McDermott
I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson. -- Nathan Gamble
I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there. -- Victor Ortiz
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them. -- Stephen Rodrick
If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor. -- John McGraw
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It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport. -- Debi Thomas
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa -- Mother Teresa
I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong. -- Zach Braff
There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. -- Carmen Ejogo
Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. -- Timothy Dalton
The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it. -- Jack Nicklaus
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him. -- George Lucas
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing. -- Howard Roberts

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