"Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness."

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Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

Zoe Akins

#Greatness Quotes

“What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.”

Source : Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.14, Harper Collins
“And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.”
“I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)”
“Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.”

Source : "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC
“When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.”
“Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.”
“Be original; don't be scared of being bold!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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