“I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.”
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“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.”
“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.”
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”
“One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.”
“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.”
“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”
“The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.”
“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”
“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.”
“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”
“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.”
“I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.”
“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.”
“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
“A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.”
“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”
“We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.”
“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”
“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.”
“I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.”
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”