Made It Quotes - Page 4

• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  White, Needs, Culture

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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• President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

  John O. Brennan

  Iran, President, Nuclear

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• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Agriculture, Machines, Fuel

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• As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

  Sandra Bullock

  Technology, Connections, Human Connection

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• So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, People, Culture

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• There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

  David Byrne

  Years, People, Listening

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

  Donald Cargill

  Sight, Years, Long

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• My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Pain, Guitar, Two

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• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  J. Cole

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Pressure

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• I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

  Christopher Columbus

  Grace And Mercy, Purpose, Lord

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• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

  Ann Coulter

  Florida, Finals, Literature

  "Coulter: Liberals are evil" by Bobby Eagle, www.freerepublic.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Character, Opportunity, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

  Angela Davis

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Reality

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Growing Up, Parent, Fame

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• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Forever, Uniforms

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Path, Resistance, Ruts

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Kids, League

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, Choices, Decision

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

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• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  Umberto Eco

  Car, Grandfather, Speed

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Running, Space, Islands

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

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