Made It Quotes - Page 28

• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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• I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Cost, Judgment

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• The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Civilization, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Years, Perception

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• The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Diversity, Triumph, Fields

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Century, Made

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Movie, Games, Growth

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• Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Growing Up, Kids, House

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

  Novak Djokovic

  Father, Interesting, Tennis

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• A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

  Sylvia Browne

  Mother, Dad, People

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• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  Dario Argento

  Mind, Film, Made

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• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  Candace Bushnell

  Good Relationship, Parent, Great Marriage

  "‘The Carrie Diaries’ On The CW: Candace Bushnell, ‘Sex And The City’ Creator, On Carrie’s Backstory And The Boys Before Big". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

  Chester Bennington

  Trying, Made, Proving Yourself

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Magazines, Tablets, Made

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• In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

  Les Baxter

  Deserve More, Tunes, Enough

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• There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

  Robert Ballard

  Technology, Sea, Long

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• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  Tim Bishop

  Pain, Trying, Cost

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• In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.

  Ann Curry

  Want, Able, Ends

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• If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

  Eric Church

  Tickets, Want, Made

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• I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Thinking, Firsts

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• I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

  Henry Cuellar

  Voting, President, Tickets

  "Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to vote Obama" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

  Shawn Colvin

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

  Vivian Campbell

  Cutting, Technology, Doe

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 201.

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• In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

  Jeff Dunham

  School, June, Years

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