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When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Rob Sheffield

Girl, Lonely, Loser

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
Rudolf Otto

Beauty, Nature, God

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity

Country, Why, Anyone

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
Meir Kahane

Understand, Ourselves, Profane

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus

Goodness, Consist

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer

Money, Care, Help

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Country, Eyes, Voices

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Peace, Justice, America

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

Great, Men, Events

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude

Self, Neglect, Essence

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett

Him, Makes, Means

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
David Brainerd

Worse, Flow, Sensual

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.
Jon Landau

Great, Control, Through

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
Rene Redzepi

Home, Food, Experience

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
Elton Gallegly

Strong, America, Grateful

I believe in the greatness of our people.
Chen Shui-bian

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
Chen Shui-bian

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster

Care, After, Follow

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie

Home, Fear, Fight

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
George Chapman

Free, Worthy, Spirits

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank Ocean

Art, Yourself, Trying

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
Paul Tsongas

Destiny, Return

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
Paul Tsongas

Leadership, America, Face

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.
Timbaland

Down, Minute, Lay

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant

Strength, Children, Her

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Jim Ramstad

Life, America, Both

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
Debbie Stabenow

Life, Hard, After

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
Vincente Fox

Human, Between, Serve

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
Steve Case

Past, Passion, Special

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Brain, Country, Big

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