Made It Quotes - Page 6

• Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

  Alan King

  Party, Looks, Vaudeville

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• I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Artist, Generations, Lineage

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

  Chris LeDoux

  Stuff, Baths, Creeks

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• In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  Eva Longoria

  College, Priorities, Pell Grants

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Fifth Grade, Made

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• I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

  Moby

  Dark, Animal, Rights

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• When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Names, People

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

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• For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

  Michael Moore

  Brother, Two, Feet

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• The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Hard Work, Years

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• I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Islands, Who I Am

  "The Gospel according to Bill O'Reilly?". Interview with Norah O'Donnell, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2013.

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• At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

  Rosa Parks

  Ideas, People, Significant

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• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  Matthew Perry

  Order, Addiction, Trying

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• For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

  Steven Pinker

  Civilization, Accomplishment, Enlightenment

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.737, Penguin

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• I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, Mph, Two

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• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

  Francois Rabelais

  Wise, Foolish, Made

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• The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Style, Made, Resources

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• When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

  Keanu Reeves

  Light, Years, Film

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Long

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• I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.

  Kid Rock

  Struggle, People, Hard Life

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• The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, America, Weapons

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• My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

  Marco Rubio

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

  Marco Rubio

  Crush, Government, People

  "All Eyez on Him". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. November 19, 2012.

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