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No man is so great as mankind.
A great man is always willing to be little.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.
Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.
L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.