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The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
Herb Elliott
Fear
Running
Greatest
Career
I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation, and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.
Herb Kelleher
Business
First
Think
Baby
Cried
Airplane
Kissed
Greatest
Arrived
Years
Up
Walked
Lips
Southwest
After
Litigation
Moment
Four
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Herb Kelleher
People
Inspiration
Ideas
Because
Greatest
Surface
Cultivate
Where
Many
Bars
Found
Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.
Herbert A. Simon
Time
Inquiry
Through
Practical
Greatest
Idle
Affairs
Arrived
Truths
Human
Human Affairs
Process
Again
Moment
Found
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
Holt McCallany
Good
You
Gift
Responsibility
Greatest Gift
Relieved
Good Scripts
Because
Greatest
Material
Trying
Scripts
Then
Actor
Elevate
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Genius
Mind
Action
Would
Bears
He
Equal
Himself
Greatest
Always
His
Cease
Human
Stamp
Whose
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
Happiness
Soul
King
Country
Alive
Only
Envious
Sin
Most
Glory
Greatest
Am
Greatest Happiness
Covet
Offending
Gracious
Serve
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
Hortense Odlum
Knowledge
One Thing
Some
He
Well
Greatest
Ever
Thing
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Howard Barker
Character
Achievement
Experience
Theatre
Anxiety
Writer
Greatest
Greatest Achievement
Taxing
Produce
Creates
Should
Who
I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
Howard Fast
Achievement
States
Born
Noblest
Greatest
Up
America
Human
Grew
Which
Race
Planet
Human Race
United
United States
United States Of America
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
Hugh Laurie
Music
Mind
Think
Say
Entire
Somehow
Seems
Poets
Greatest
Get
Quite
Human
Cannot
Places
Infuse
Gonna
Body
Even
Actually
One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with.
Hugh Masekela
Leadership
Think
Borders
Could
Countries
Greatest
Greatest Things
Get
Africa
Happen
Them
Us
Create
Really
Rid
Things
Start
Belong
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
Hugh Shelton
Service
War
Great
You
Generation
World
Seen
Films
Those
Out
Had
Greatest
Greatest Generation
Provided
World War
World War II
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
Hugh Shelton
Life
Great
Opportunity
Honor
My Life
Marines
Our
Honored
Soldiers
Airmen
Lead
Greatest
Sailors
Been
Very
Representative
Who
Washington
Serve
Humbling
When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.
Hugo Chavez
Matter
Doubt
Our
Later
Our Lives
Several
No Doubt
Fact
Greatest
Motherland
However
Were
Discovered
Africa
Children
Spain
Lives
I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn't make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I'm not going to make a career out of it.
Ian Gillan
Best
Me
Out
Tell
Sung
Write
Football
Footballer
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Make
Greatest
Duet
George
Going
Story
Lived
Ever
Played
Career
One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
Ian Gillan
Writing
Pleasures
Web
Web Site
Greatest
Site
I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.
Ian Gillan
Think
Recorded
Never
Greatest
Rock
Ballad
Been
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Ian Mcewan
You
Reading
Pleasure
Perhaps
Know
Greatest
Exist
Barely
Element
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
Ice Cube
Music
Good
Book
Master
Our
Tell
Charles
Composers
Count
He
Ray
Ray Charles
Days
Him
Because
Greatest
Duke
Duke Ellington
Very
Autobiography
Sarah
Ole
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
Greatest
Movie
Ever
Alan
Minnesota's diversity should be its greatest strength, but our neglect of nonwhite students has stifled our progress toward growth and equity.
Ilhan Omar
Strength
Progress
Diversity
Neglect
Our
Minnesota
Students
Toward
Greatest
Stifled
Equity
Greatest Strength
Should
Growth
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
Imelda May
Great
Sometimes
Brilliant
Sold
Elvis
Tried
Some
About
Songs
Perform
Performance
Like
Him
Greatest
Were
Greatest Thing
Artists
Tunes
Them
Noticed
Thing
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
Indira Gandhi
People
Poverty
Wish
Further
We Cannot
Environment
Greatest
Forget
Any
Cannot
Grim
Moment
Large
Large Numbers
Need
Numbers
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
Iris Chang
Country
Out
Clear
Tension
California
Because
Greatest
Where
Wanted
Interest
Chinese
Racial
Really
Special
Special Interest
Special Interest Groups
Groups
Shut
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
Iris Johansen
Good
Character
Writing
Thinking
Out
Plot
Compliment
About
Given
Writer
Points
Miss
Reader
Deal
Greatest
Caught
Up
Hold
Story
Working
Good Deal
Sleep
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