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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, `Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?` Actually, who...
Maryanne Williamson
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O` the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance
Hipponax the Satirist
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Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
Abdu`l Baha
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Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we`ll do it because it`s brilliant nonsense.
Douglas Adams
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I`m afraid that`s not quite right.
Bill Gates
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I try to find things that are insanely cheap and brilliant. My Bonne Bell lip gloss is about 75 cents, and I have worn it as my lipstick to almost every main event in Hollywood in the past two years. - quoted in Woman`s World (27 December 2005)
Jennifer Hewitt
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All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you`re a brilliant actress. Actually, all you`ve done is look like crap.
Helen Mirren
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In Wales it`s brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes So what you doing now?" And I go, "Oh, I`m doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins." And they go, "Ooh, good." And that`s it."
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Then I watched the first episode of Star Wars over and over again. I loved it as a kid. It was a bit funny to be paid for it. I`d say to my wife, "I`ve got to go and watch Star Wars again, Sorry. I just haven`t quite got it..." Brilliant.
Ewan McGregor
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I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits-men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn`t found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big mascu...
Jolene Blalock
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I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits-men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn`t found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big mascu...
Jolene Blalock
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[on Vivien Leigh] Apart from her looks, which were magical, she possessed beautiful poise; her neck looked almost too fragile to support her head and bore with it a sense of surprise, and something of the pride of the master juggler who can make a brillia...
Laurence Olivier
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I`ve got this brilliant thing where I go, "I`m Robbie Williams", and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I`m just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.
Robbie Williams
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It`s not the fact that I WAS brilliant, I AM brilliant.
Pete Townshend
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It`s not the fact that I WAS brilliant, I AM brilliant.
Pete Townshend
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I`ve always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
Jude Law
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I`ve always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
Jude Law
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You can scratch the surface of my songs pretty lightly and you`ll find someone who wanted to be James Taylor at the age of 14. He`s also a brilliant and ridiculously underrated guitar player and blessed with a voice that could melt ice caps.
Sting
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[On "The Muppet Show" (1976) head writer, Jerry Juhl]: He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets. He just knew the characters better than anybody else. He was brilliant because he could be funny but not nasty. He always saw the aff...
Frank Oz
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My brother is two years older than me and he was brilliant at everything, it seemed. He was captain of the cricket and rugby teams. We had this rather archaic system of head boys and prefects at my school. I was in my fourth year - in Scotland we finish s...
Ewan McGregor
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To be in the hands of an auteur like [Andrei Tarkovsky], that would be just brilliant. But I don`t know if those kind of films can ever be made any more. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningl...
Emily Mortimer
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I always trusted him. If there was a way that I had seen something and he had seen it differently, I would ... trust his vision. We were in brilliant hands. -- Elijah Wood on filming "Lord of the Rings," December 14, 2003
Peter Jackson
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Hated acting "because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that." Hayden`s agent: "This man was born in the wrong cent...
Sterling Hayden
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I am the proudest dad in the world. I thought that it was brilliant, and Stella has come such a long way since she first started out. [Following daughter Stella McCartney`s graduation fashion show, June 1995]
Paul McCartney
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[On her work with William Powell] "I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman."
Myrna Loy
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On Heathers (1989): "It`s a brilliant piece of literature, and I call it literature because it really is. I held it up next to `Catcher in the Rye` and all the great books that I`ve read."
Winona Ryder
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I became an actor, because of Danny Bonaduce on the Partridge Family". He`s tremendous, so funny and brilliant, and we seemed around the same age, I felt I should be on a show with him. We could have done a good spin-off, "the Danny Bonaduce, Vinnie Gallo...
Vincent Gallo
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I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up `til now . . . and even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!
Jet Li
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Stone found her brush with death from a brain aneurysm has given her a new lease of life: "This brilliant, bright, white vortex of light was upon me. And then I was met by some of my friends, people who are very dear to me. But it was over very fast and s...
Sharon Stone
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When I was in my early twenties, I knew a man who has since died, who was older than me and also very crazy. He`d been in a straitjacket and institutionalized, and I found him very brilliant. When I would speak to him about writing, about life, art, women...
Woody Allen
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