Made It Quotes - Page 39

• I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it.

  Robert Walpole

  Lying, Long, Safety

  1739 Speech, House of Commons, 21 Nov.

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• God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Grace And Mercy, Acting, God's Grace

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.507, Baker Books

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• Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

  Liz Garbus

  Player, Community, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping. I find that technology has made it so that we don't need to have a memory system, and as I get older I want to do things that challenge me. What could be more challenging than doing this show with a knee that's been replaced, after tearing my Achilles heel with a baker's cyst on the back of my knee? And then I have to try and dance!

  George Hamilton

  Memories, Technology, Challenges

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What I'm loving about Hilary Clinton is that she has the job that's been held mostly by men. She's made it her job, not only to be a very tactful diplomat, but she travels the world, spotlighting what's going on with girls and women, in every country that she goes to. That has been so unique.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Country, Jobs

  Source: collider.com

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• I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

  Ezra Furman

  Thinking, Past, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

  Dane DeHaan

  Important, Rats, Garbage

  Source: collider.com

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• Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.

  Donald Kuspit

  Art, Reflection, Everyday

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• A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

  Stan Brakhage

  Drama, Black And White, Discovery

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• We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Years, People

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• A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

  Daniel Inouye

  Principles, Betrayed, Made

  1987 Of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.

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• Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

  Tim Crane

  Wine, Made, Artifacts

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• I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

  Abraham Robinson

  Moving, Years, Research

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• The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Faith, Believe, Inventory

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• People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ecosystems, People

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• In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

  Philip K. Dick

  Philosophy, Law, Gunpowder

  "To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962". Book by Gregg Rickman, 1989.

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• Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

  Neville Cardus

  Constitution, Cricket, Made

  1945 English Cricket.

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• The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Struggle, Son, America

  "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'". www1.rfi.fr. February 4, 2009.

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• I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

  Edward Brooke

  Helping, Made, Wanted

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• I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

  Frances Harper

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

  Eugenia Price

  Men, People, Made

  EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Taken, Ideas, Care

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• I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.

  Rickey Henderson

  Player, World, Want

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• If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Stress, What Matters, Pace

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