Successful Quotes - Page 17

• People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

  Missy Elliot

  Men, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.

  Andy Samberg

  People, Faithful, Supportive

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Able, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

  John Hickenlooper

  Vacation, Boards, Gone

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• What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Interesting, Different, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

  Emma Donoghue

  Fiction, Novelists, Film

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Directors, Different, Stories

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

  Philippe Claudel

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me that resonates with people, and honestly that's all I could ever want.

  MC Lars

  Meaningful, Art, People

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• As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.

  Duncan Roy

  Aristocracy, Symbiosis, You Like It

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.

  Erica Brown

  Prayer, Teaching, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.

  Erin Davie

  Would Be, Sometimes, Being The Best

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.

  Eytan Fox

  Country, Strong, Children

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

  Gerry Spence

  Argument, Source

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• If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

  Jon Stewart

  Survival, President, May

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• There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Ideas, Numbers

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1988). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Responsibility, People, Able

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• I've never met a successful pessimist.

  William O'Neil

  Pessimist, Mets

  "Conversation with a maverick investor". Interview with Kevin Marder, www.marketwatch.com. September 13, 2011.

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• People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

  Lily Allen

  Men, People, Boss

  "Vintage festival promises more glamour than Glastonbury" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Intelligent, Evil

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Government, Touching, Lines

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• We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America”

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• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  James Sinegal

  Loyalty, Organization, People

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• If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Mountaineering

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• It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Planets

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