Made It Quotes - Page 38

• You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

  Philipp Meyer

  Believe, Years, People

  "Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans'" by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2013.

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• I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

  Wale

  Girlfriend, Years, Made

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• When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

  Gerry Adams

  People, Risk, Dawn

  "The survivor" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2001.

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• Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.

  Pete Carroll

  Teacher, Fun, School

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• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  F. Sionil José

  Powerful, Unique, Japan

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• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Ephemeral, Definitions, Made

  "Rafael Viñoly Takes The Opera Stage". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, observer.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

  Rob Marshall

  Stories, Movement, Way

  "Director Marshall on Pirates 4" by Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. December 14, 2010.

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• The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

  Herodotus

  Memorable, Fighting, Battle

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.479, OUP Oxford

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• The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Strong, Loss, Media

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• I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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• An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Design, Waiting

  "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design". Book by Richard Dawkins, September 28, 2015.

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• I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

  Rob Corddry

  Drinking, Shoes, Two

  "What Happens In Vegas - Rob Corddry and Lake Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fate, Thinking, Knowing

  "50 Cent Talks Get Rich or Die Tryin'". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Supernatural Forces, Humanity, Wish

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Government, Politics

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• The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

  John Dos Passos

  Effort, Political, Competition

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• Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Power, Men

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• Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Technology, Different, Benefits

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

  Stendhal

  Marriage, Heart, Boredom

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
  Wise--deluded man!

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Horse, Men

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• [John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

  Freeman Dyson

  Made, Mathematician, Subjects

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• Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Art, Men, House

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.101, e-artnow

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• Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hands, Forever, Purpose

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.185, Ignatius Press

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• One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

  James Gleick

  Change, Time, Understanding

  "5 Big Moments in the History of Knowledge Transfer" by Jason Gots, bigthink.com.

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• It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

  Greta Garbo

  Beautiful, Car, Ugly

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