Made It Quotes - Page 3

• All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through meditation, through the invocation of the name of God, to walk closer and closer in this life to Him, you need someone to guide you. And God has made it possible in Islam for this guidance to exist.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Practice, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the beginner band in sixth grade that made it to the advanced band, which was called the morning band at our junior high school in Staten Island.

  Jon Gordon

  Morning, School, Islands

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• When Bernard [Leach] wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Book, Personality, Clay

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Voice, Made, Outfits

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.

  Dar Williams

  Cutting, People, My Family

  Source: progressive.org

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• I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sorry, Kids, Home

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Technology, People, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Drama, Thinking, Years

  "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

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• America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.

  James Lasdun

  Thinking, America, Viewpoints

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strangely enough, for me, Instagram has been a creatively freeing and inspiring format lately. I have been so very resistant to nearly all forms of media, yet finally this made it into my atmosphere, and in discovering this I have been propelled into some movement and new ideas. Real life images, curated images, even the visual diarrhea are incredible fertilization for movement in some direction or another.

  Guinevere Van Seenus

  Real, Media, Ideas

  "The Secrets of Guinevere Van Seenus". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2016.

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• What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.

  Mark Hosler

  Taken, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Oil, Self, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

  Malin Akerman

  Song, Past, Idols

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

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• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hydrogen Bomb, Optimism

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• I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

  Julie Andrews

  Broadway, Made, Flash

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• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

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• It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Son, Office

  "Biden replacement creates blowback" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 24, 2008.

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• When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

  Bjork

  Apples, Done, Punk

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• You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, Barbie Dolls, Scary

  "11 Amazing Quotes From Cate Blanchett". Marie Claire, November 13, 2014.

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• I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Elements, Made, Streets

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• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  Usain Bolt

  Inspiration, Years, Made

  "Local heroes: Usain Bolt". Interview with Rio Ferdinand, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

  Usain Bolt

  Competition, Finals, Steps

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

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Cnn, Pushing

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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