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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges on great

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
Cher on great

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne on great

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
Shaun White on great

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith on great

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
Horace on great

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison on great

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore on happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama on happiness

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln on happiness

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington on happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi on happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde on happiness

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama on happiness

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein on happiness

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama on happiness

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson on happiness

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone on happiness

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker on happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on happiness