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“One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.”

Term Identity Narrative Immigrants Shed

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters”

Shows Air Pressure Journalism Reporters Thumbs Cheaper Sucker Talk Shows Pundits

Author:Walter Isaacson

“One of the great privileges of a physician’s calling is - often without being truly earned - the opportunity to be present and surrounded by stories in times of crisis.”

Narrative Medicine Quotes Surgery Quotes Physician Quotes

Author:Bruce H. Campbell

Source: A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace

“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.”

Home School Lines Half Class Boys Gone Streets Middle Fronts Privilege London Middle Class Household Dichotomy Good Boy

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.”

Men Children Long Facts Problem Realizing Perfect Periods Active Manifest Psychics Inner Life Long Periods Of Time

Author:Maria Montessori

“One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.”

Philosophy Problem Science Values Views Knowledge Impossible Ought Including Point Of View Traditional Realms Marxism Farce

Author:Jacques Monod

“One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.”

World Problem Today Able Poor Scientist World Today Flanders

Author:Michael Flanders

“One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.”

People Problem Assuming Decent

Author:Meir Kahane

“One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.”

Purpose Values Common Share Elements Accounts Exclusive Isms

Author:Thomas Keating

“One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.”

Should Sometimes Quality Situation Issues Honest Approach Steady Consistently Constructive Disagreement Great Qualities

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Way Philosophy Study Issues Morality Ten Very Good Commandments Celestial Good Way Ten Commandments Dictation

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.”

Knows Men Giving Humans Self Reason Able Speak Tools Unions Blow Strikes Popularity

Author:Charles Horton Cooley

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.”

Men Mind Has Beens Reason Facts Body Age Young Sun Clear Habit Bed Old Age Young Man Retiring Ripe Vigorous

Author:Ernest L. Wilkinson

“One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Able Life Is Regret Lucky Starting Smoke If I Could Smoking Say Anything Starting Out Quit Smoking

Author:Bill Nighy

“One of the great responsibilities of the board is to make good policies and set the culture tone for the organization to compete for the future.”

Digital Boardroom

Author:Pearl Zhu

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.”

Values Responsibility Manage Assets Great Responsibility

Author:Alice Walton

“One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.”

Ifs Design Type Errors

Author:Bill Mollison

“One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”

Ifs Poor Rich Smart Economics Green Idiot Get Rich Really Smart

Author:John Green

“One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.”

Healthy Cups Hockey Germs Stanley Stanley Cup

Author:George Vecsey

“One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.”

“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”

Age Five Sadness Middle Adventure Twenties Middle Ages Twenty Five

Author:Jon Weisman

“One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.”

Knows Way Passion Speak Language Understanding Interest Secret Liberty Principles Know How Impossible Prejudice Possession Confusion Introducing

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.”

Responsibility Psychology Self Esteem Self Respect Self Knowledge

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.”

Use Language Knowing Design Skills Simplicity Software Software Design

Author:Ron Jeffries

“One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.”

Thinking Age Acting Lord Behavior Contrary Inevitable Inclination Sophistry

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.”

People Source Industry Employment Animation Geometry

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.”

People Culture Individual Successful Empowerment Relation Employee Being Successful Investors American Culture Entrepreneurial Great Company

Author:Reid Hoffman

“One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”

States Christian Values Nations United United States Citizens Ideals Bounds Population Christian Nation

Author:Barack Obama

“One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.”

Literature Individual Space Theme Continents Confrontation American Literature Open Spaces

Author:Justin Cronin

“One of the great themes of nature is abundance. One of the great themes of every city should also be abundance. In every city, there should be an abundance of opportunities, an abundance of food, an abundance of available homes, an abundance of biodiversity, an abundance of spaces to play.”

Cities Abundance City Permaculture Economy Trees Quotes City Planning Permaculture Society

Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.”

Knows Guy Walks Morning New York Coffee Great Things Dry Shops Neighborhood Cleaning Coffee Shop Dry Cleaning

Author:Piper Perabo

“One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.”

“One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.”

Knows Different Ends Middle Tvs Series Great Things Discovering Episodes Unfolding Tv Series

Author:Dylan Walsh

“One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.”

Thinking Real Can Do Acting Trouble Real Life Great Things

Author:Michael Shannon

“One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.”

Attitude Slave Great Things African American Ancestor

Author:Spike Lee

“One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.”

Matter Christian America Please Worship Catholic Atheist Jew Great Things Entitled Agnostic Moderates Evangelical

Author:Karl Rove

“One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.”

Kind Stories Choices Challenges Inspiring Directors Great Things Filmmaker Movie Filmmaking Life Choices Expeditions Film Directors Movie Director

Author:Ron Howard

“One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things.”

Trying Kind Parent Forget Brother Capable Great Things My Sister Grandparent

Author:Rita Williams-Garcia

“One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.”

States Home Dresses Incredibles Great Things Journalist Features Fake Fancy Boss Engagement Kate Countryside Wedding Dress

Author:Caitlin Moran

“One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.”

Actors Attention Great Things Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Allison Mack

“One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.”

Actors Great Things Indulge Indulge In

Author:Cameron Diaz

“One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.”

Different Actors Challenges Months Great Things

Author:James Purefoy

“One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.”

“One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.”

Care Gay Paper Great Things Love Life Papers Being Gay

Author:Graham Norton

“One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.”

People Thinking Trying I Can Ideas Sometimes Feelings Easy Knowledge Wonderful Originals Ignorant Great Things Sensations Ducks Spoil Hurling Being Ignorant

Author:Scott Adams

“One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.”

Musician Great Things

Author:Alasdair MacLean

“One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.”

People Character Artist Reader Habit Involved Average Great Things Comic Devoted Casual

Author:Charlie Huston

“One of the great things about being on a show for a long period of time is watching the show evolve. A friend told me a long time ago "It should be easy" and it usually is if you're not distracted with the usual demons any creative person has. Especially with comedy because you find yourself laughing while you work.”

Ifs Should Persons Long Shows Easy Laughing Creative Comedy Periods Long Time Great Things Evolve Demon Finding Yourself Usual Distracted Long Time Ago Creative Person Long Periods Of Time

Author:John Swihart

“One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.”

People Giving Easy Appreciation Great Things Fake Sincere Feedback Sincere Appreciation

Author:John Astin

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