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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Saying, Makes

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
Roger Moore

Nice, Place, France

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
Pierre Charron

Good, Best, Wisdom

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova

Health, Food, Made

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Brit Hume

Done, Night, President

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
John Norman

Woman, Another, Her

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
Clarence Thomas

Good, Person, Short

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
Joaquin Phoenix

Society, Film, Whether

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
Bobby Flay

Best, Give, Both

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita

Blame, Praise, Virtues

Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
Vidal Sassoon

Beautiful, Wonderful, Face

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
Arthur Smith

Travel, Book, Far

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian

Fault, Impression, Admission

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
Lev Grossman

Live, Book, Away

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Ada Louise Huxtable

Great, Job, Saying

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!
Adam Savage

Cool, Mean, Looked

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Paul Gauguin

Arts, Cooks, Spoilt

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
Gavin Newsom

Work, Beautiful, Hard

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
Idris Elba

Movies, Long, Short

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
Mike Wallace

Important, Done, Leader

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
John Baldacci

Education, Two, Treat

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
Sheryl Crow

Funny, Realize, Player

If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons

Good, Wrong, Season

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
Darrell Royal

Time, Golf, Four

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
Ridley Scott

Moving, Picture, Company

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
Paul Nurse

Work, Good, Strong

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater

Beauty, Art, Poetry

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.
Jon Landau

Play, Creating, Badly

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon

Children, Nothing, Everything

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul.
Peter Lombard

Mind, Soul, Here

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