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I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
Theresa May

Good, Job, Important

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Anthony Trollope

Ambition, Earth, Parent

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
Murray Walker

Today, Winners, Line

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
Ritchie Blackmore

Person, Likes, Funk

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward

Failure, Country, Understand

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward

Saying, Lie, Voice

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.
John Zorn

Working, Lose, Year

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Before, Purpose, Heaven

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
Thomas Starr King

Future, Beautiful, Strange

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
Olivier Messiaen

Life, Faith, God

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
Donny Osmond

Music, Mother, While

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
John Bolton

Spring, Survival, Israel

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Bear Grylls

Society, High, Line

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
Eric Liu

Bad, Habits, Gesture

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Mind, Human, Seen

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence

Sense, Common, Clever

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
Angela Merkel

Football, Different, Christian

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
Galen Rowell

Easy, Scenery, Yosemite

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Rather, President

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas

Love, Music, Religion

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
Philip Emeagwali

Greatest, Challenge, Hiv

I will open an era of grand national unity.
Park Geun-hye

Open, National, Unity

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
Patrick Stewart

Life, Political, Thought

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
Maurice Strong

Today, Past, Made

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
Jim Garrison

Heard, Evidence, Conspiracy

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image.
Ai Weiwei

Government, Care, Feelings

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
Randy Moss

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.
Danielle Steel

Attention, Waiters

It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.
Jenson Button

Feeling, Win, Special

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.
Jenson Button

Age, Black, Since

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