Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
Eileen Myles
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
Joel Madden
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin
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Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
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I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
Clive Sinclair
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If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
James McBride
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
Elvis Costello
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Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
Benedict Wong
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater
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He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
Steven Hall
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About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked.
Michael Korda
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I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
Anthony Mann
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
Lady Gregory
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar
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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
Steven Spielberg
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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