Great People Quotes

1. “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”

2. “I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.”

3. “I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.”

4. “The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”

5. “Great people have great values and great ethics.”

6. “I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.”

7. “A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.”

8. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

9. “Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.”

10. “The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.”

11. “It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.”

12. “Great people are attracted to great people and great visions.”

13. “All you can dream for is opportunity, and I've been very fortunate to have that over the years. That's all thanks to some great people.”

14. “I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.”

15. “Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.”

16. “Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.”

17. “It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.”

18. “To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.”

19. “Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.”

20. “When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.”

21. “Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.”

22. “I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.”

23. “The people are great people in Minnesota. I loved playing there.”

24. “I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.”

25. “I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.”

26. “We pray every day that the Good Lord will continue to bless our great state and our great people.”

27. “I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.”

28. “My parents are great people.”

29. “The history of our Party is just the path travelled by our great people: its might is their might, its greatness is their greatness, and its victory is the victory achieved by them.”

30. “Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.”

31. “But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.”

32. “My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.”

33. “I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.”

34. “It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.”

35. “I would say making memories with my teammates and my brothers and all of the relationships that I formed through football. It's a great network, you get to meet a lot of great people, you get to experience a lot of hardships with other people, and fight through things with other people.”

36. “I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”

37. “We just want to have great people working for us.”

38. “Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time… and a lot of other great people, too.”

39. “For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.”

40. “I used to be a big 'Star Search' fan. I think it's great people who have a music dream have a place to showcase their talent.”

41. “The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.”

42. “I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.”

43. “I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.”

44. “It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”

45. “Great countries are those that produce great people.”

46. “I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.”

47. “But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.”

48. “I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.”

49. “This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.”

50. “It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.”

51. “What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.”

52. “I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.”

53. “Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.”

54. “I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.”

55. “I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.”

56. “I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.”

57. “I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.”

58. “The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.”

59. “Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.”

60. “And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.”

61. “We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.”

62. “But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.”

63. “Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.”

64. “The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.”

65. “We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.”

66. “Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.”

67. “I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.”

68. “It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.”

69. “I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.”

70. “It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.”

71. “There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.”

72. “I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.”

73. “I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.”

74. “People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.”

75. “I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.”

76. “This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.”

77. “I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.”

78. “I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.”

79. “I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.”

80. “The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.”

81. “I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.”

82. “I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.”

83. “I've just been blessed to work with these really great people.”

84. “I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.”

85. “Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.”

86. “Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.”

87. “With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.”

88. “I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.”

89. “I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.”

90. “When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all day today. In work, I believe that you really need to choose people that you get along with because work is life, so you may as well enjoy your time. I'm lucky. I have great people around me, and we laugh all day.”

91. “I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.”

92. “As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'”

93. “Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or ranking member of. And in both instances they were just great people to work with.”

94. “Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.”

95. “It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.”

96. “The truth is, I think country music… there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.”

97. “I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.”

98. “I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.”

99. “I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.”

100. “Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.”

101. “While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.”

102. “If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.”

103. “Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.”

104. “I really just want to do the best at everything I do. I just want to have all the great people around me that I feel is family, as well as my friends, and I have an amazing girlfriend. I think having love in your life is most important.”

105. “I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.”

106. “Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.”

107. “Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.”

108. “I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.”

109. “I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.”

110. “I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.”

111. “I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.”

112. “I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up… they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.”

113. “As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.”

114. “Only great people can make great products.”

115. “What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.”

116. “It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.”

117. “I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.”

118. “I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.”

119. “In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.”

120. “I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.”

121. “Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.”

122. “I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.”

123. “There are no great people. There are only great topics.”

124. “Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.”

125. “A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.”

126. “I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.”

127. “Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”

128. “When I joined politics, I was arrested in Luanshya… In 1960, I was with great people like Justine Chimba, Mazimba from Ndola and Dingiswayo Banda.”

129. “New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach… and I love rap.”

130. “I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.”

131. “It's truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that's not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that's much more gratifying, I think.”

132. “It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.”

133. “It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.”

134. “You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.”

135. “Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.”

136. “You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.”

137. “I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.”

138. “Yeah, 'Feed the Dog' is just a really fun, teenage movie with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez and all these other great people. It's just so silly-funny, and my character's super-fun.”

139. “I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.”

140. “There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.”

141. “I believe Israel needs branding. I want that the word 'Israel' will relate not just to an Israeli soldier or a camel, but Israel as an advanced liberal society with a strong economy and great people.”

142. “Although I've been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.”

143. “I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.”

144. “I am surrounded by great people.”

145. “If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.”

146. “Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.”

147. “I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.”

148. “Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.”

149. “I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.”

150. “When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do.”

151. “I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.”

152. “There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me.”

153. “When you're on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can't.”

154. “I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.”

155. “You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.”

156. “We generally acquire a company every three to four weeks on average. And so it's a rare month that there's not a company being bought. We typically buy for technology and really great people.”

157. “I was lucky to play with guys who were not only good players, but great people.”

158. “I actually kind of prefer working with an ensemble. It's just cool to be surrounded by such great people.”

159. “I'm proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.”

160. “There are a lot of great people in UKIP.”

161. “We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.”

162. “SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren't robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You're dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.”

163. “I have great people who help me be on time, but I'm not an on-time person, and I'm very chaotic in my thoughts.”

164. “It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.”

165. “In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.”

166. “Whatever appreciation I've got despite the limited work I have done has been great. People have been receptive, and I think it's a privilege to have earned this respect.”

167. “I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.”

168. “I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.”

169. “Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.”

170. “When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.”

171. “Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks - and those are great people to aim for, but they had the fundamentals down. They knew how to be funny.”

172. “I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.”

173. “There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.”

174. “Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.”

175. “I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don't have many regrets, but I remember he'd shown some interest, and I was just in my own world, man.”

176. “For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.”

177. “I want to do whatever people allow me to do with great people and have a great time doing it.”

178. “I had beautiful years with Southampton - great club, great people, great supporters - and I'm very proud of my four years.”

179. “I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.”

180. “If I didn't live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork. I think it's got such atmosphere and is extraordinary. I met great people there.”

181. “I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'”

182. “Of course I'm happy with my time in professional wrestling. I met some great people, I met my wife, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.”

183. “My very first show that I ever did was a show called 'Then Came You'. It became a huge hit - no, it didn't. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman's best friend. I was 27 years old.”

184. “I've been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don't think I've ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.”

185. “I'll forever look at Imagine Dragons and hear them on the radio and think, 'They're great people.'”

186. “I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.”

187. “If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.”

188. “Mum and dad worked so hard to help me and my brothers grow up as good people. They were both social workers, working with kids with learning disabilities. They are just great people. It means so much to me to make them proud.”

189. “The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.”

190. “It was a privilege to enjoy the national team and be part of a group that gave so much to our country, wear the shirt with great people.”

191. “The more comfortable you are, the more confident you are - in how you say your lines or how you perform in a certain scene - because you're working with great people who will watch over you and won't let you down.”

192. “I'm still a young player - I'm still learning - so all I can try to do is soak up what's around me, and I've got great individuals, great people, to learn from and inspire to be like as well as how I want to play, so I'm grateful to be in the position I'm in and learn from the people I am.”

193. “Kenya is a land of great people, and during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, I remember meeting some Kenyan fans at the hotel where we were staying. It felt nice to see people from back home cheering and supporting me. Some even approached me; we talked, and they took pictures.”

194. “The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.”

195. “I was only one year at Newcastle, but that time there meant a lot to me. I met some great people who helped me to play good games in the Premier League, and it was because of them I got the move to Liverpool.”

196. “My upbringing in Birmingham gave me a sense of reality. I could not pick another city I would rather have grown up in. Growing up around really good, solid, godly people, it helped me to find those kind of great people in L.A., too, which can be hard for some people.”

197. “I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.”

198. “For me, one of the best things of having been a Doobie Brother is that the people involved always were great people.”

199. “Illamasqua is a great brand with great people.”

200. “I have the best people around me. None of them have ever been on the radio. They're all such great people, and I found that I was able to be a better person when I was doing the radio show. It kept me from being a radio person.”

201. “I love the individual sport stuff but the experiences I've had with some great people over 12 or 15 years are what makes is special. That individual thing: me versus the bowler is great but you get that team feeling as well and that's why it suits me so well.”

202. “I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.”

203. “I don't have any bad vibes with LSU. I learned so much there. I experienced so much there. I had so much fun. I met great people.”

204. “Luckily enough I've got great people around me to keep me humble and grounded.”

205. “Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.”

206. “I've lost before, you need great people around you, your family, people giving you positive energy.”

207. “When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began playing guitar with him in the road in the late '80s until he retired in 1997. So I traveled the world with them for years, you know, and all around the world and got to meet some great people.”

208. “Hockey's filled with great people, and it's a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey.”

209. “When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.”

210. “It has been a privilege to meet and work with so many great people and, from the workshop to the joy rides, to be allowed to experience so many fabulous cars and amazing locations.”

211. “I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.”

212. “The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class. Some of those areas are bigger in one country than another, and some countries have real problems that they're working through. But there's great people, good people and a small percentage of bad people - just like everywhere else.”

213. “It's one of the best parts of being on the 'Real Housewives' and why I love it: getting to talk to so many great people.”

214. “Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.”

215. “I've been to some great clubs, great people, watched them training, getting a different view on football, and really enjoyed it.”

216. “Early on in my recovery, the entire United States seemed to be supportive. Letters flooded in from all over the place, so from the second I woke up in the hospital, I've always had a great team and great people.”

217. “I was very involved in back of the house, and finding good people is by far the hardest thing. So, when you're living in a place like New York or San Francisco, where the cost of living is so high, finding great people is very hard. Even finding remotely reliable people.”

218. “A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.”

219. “Idras Elba was from Forest Gate - where I am from - there are a lot of great people around if they can be given a chance or have the belief.”

220. “My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don't have qualities of that sort.”

221. “I have great people around me, I have great training partners, and I think if you really want something you work for it and you get it.”

222. “T.J. Miller and Rob Corddry and Casey Wilson, they're just great people.”

223. “I'm not going to be depressed about my career however it ends because I've met great people, I've played with great teammates, I've played for great coaches, and I've lived out a lifelong dream. But it wasn't just about a dream of playing in the NFL. It was about a dream of playing in the NFL and winning Super Bowl rings.”

224. “Some aren't as fortunate as others, so I admire young people who see it's important to give back to their community, connect with great people and have fun.”

225. “Its challenging getting people to pay the right money to eat really good food and finding great people to work for you.”

226. “My first filming job was one of the first episodes of 'Black Mirror,' before anyone knew what that was going to be. It was this mad project with some great people behind it - and now it's 'Black Mirror!' It was sort of baptism by fire.”

227. “I'm very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I've had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.”

228. “I've been very fortunate throughout my life with a number of opportunities, a number of great people that have helped me be in the position that I am today to be an NBA basketball player and to be living out my dream.”

229. “One of the things I love doing is putting great people together.”

230. “Get great people around you.”

231. “I feel really honoured to be in the Walk of Fame in Birmingham with so many great people already like Ozzy Osbourne.”

232. “I am proud to take the oath of office to represent and serve the great people of Colorado's Third Congressional District.”

233. “Hendrick Motorsports has great, great people there and I'm very lucky to be a part of that team and surrounded by amazing people.”

234. “Hendrick Motorsports overall has a lot of great people and that gives you confidence that you can have a good season.”

235. “I've grown so much as an individual, I've come across so many great people, great organizations, heard so many great stories, inspiring stories.”

236. “Orlando is a great city to raise a family because they have great schools and there are a lot of great people around here that I have met.”

237. “There are a lot of great people in Cleveland. It's a great town.”

238. “I guess you could say my beauty routine is to do fun stuff with great people, laugh lots, work hard and be kind: because when I'm stimulated, invigorated and exhilarated, that's when I feel beautiful.”

239. “The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.”

240. “I just want to go to a place where the guys are going to develop me, have great people around me and be at a great organization.”

241. “I've learned my lesson hiring strictly on resume. At the end of the day, if they didn't match our core values, it was a disaster and I ended up losing other great people within the company - and that's time and money.”

242. “I think back on all the great people in my life, from my parents to my teachers, and the wonderful influence they had on me. I wanted to write a book that would help my kids and other children when they read it.”

243. “If you've got great people, you've got a chance of creating a great team.”

244. “I've surrounded myself with really great people and put a lot of trust in them.”

245. “Cleveland is a really awesome community. There's some great people here.”

246. “I firmly believe there is no such thing as a self-made man. I'm certainly no different. I have great people that have supported me along the way.”

247. “Worked with a lot of great people, and I took great pride in my work and tried to bring it every day.”

248. “If I did act in something, my first thought would be, 'OK, great, people will watch this and come see me on tour.' Everything's there to serve stand-up, and make that bigger and better.”

249. “I've always been grateful for the acceptance I've got because I know that I'm not always promoting the most popular thing in the world. But I always had an honorable little project, and great people to help me execute.”

250. “I think that really great people are formed through ups and downs.”

251. “It's a great country. It's not a rich country but it has great people, nice people. It's my motherland. A lot of my life afterwards was in Russia but I love Kyrgyzstan. I love the culture and it's different to Russia. Kyrgyzstan is a Muslim country and I have many Muslim friends.”