Made It Quotes - Page 7

• They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

  Marco Rubio

  Mother, Dream, Dad

  Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

  Paul Ryan

  Morning, Work, Thinking

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hard Work, Motivational Work, Easy

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2017

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• I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Believe, Should Have

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Procrastination, Should Have, Voice

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

  Peter Singer

  Political, Answers, Too Much

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• It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

  Hope Solo

  Team, Feet, Gold

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• I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

  George Strait

  Texas, Australia, Bahamas

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• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Singing, Way

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• Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

  John Sununu

  Believe, President, Born

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• I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Thinking, Different

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  Major Taylor

  Giving, Champion, Racing

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

  Randall Terry

  Running, Adultery, Made

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• My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Who I Am, Skills

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• I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, People, Trying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Smoking, Literature

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Musician, Example

  "At Emmys, Kimmel jokes about Mitt, Obama" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. September 24, 2012.

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• The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Lying, Voice, Giving

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• Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

  Scott Weiland

  Computer, Internet, Easy

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• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Successful, Pitfalls

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

  Allen West

  Father, Commitment, Sacrifice

  "Rep. Allen West To Black Voters: Give GOP A Chance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 27, 2012.

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• You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

  Allen West

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2010.

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• We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Success, Artist, Boys

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• I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

  Edith Wharton

  Education, Men, Interesting

  "The Fruit of the Tree".

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