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• Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Stuff, Honest

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• A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great thing for me, and hopefully I can make it to number 10. And then I would want to start managing other artists, 'cause I think the best manager is an artist, his, or herself, that has been in the business and been successful and knows the ins and outs of the business.

  Ginuwine

  Artist, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Art, Book, Historical

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Claims, Results

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.

  Sia Furler

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected for. Biding your time, deferring gratification, staying still, foregoing sex for safety, and so forth, is essential in getting food, in surviving, and in successful reproduction.

  Patricia Churchland

  Strong, Sex, Self

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.

  Taron Egerton

  Thinking, Comedian, Doe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour.

  Margaret Cho

  Home, Reality, Role Models

  "Sing out, sister: an interview with Margaret Cho". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 25, 2016.

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• It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.

  Donald Faison

  Crazy, Mean, Different

  Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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• Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.

  George Friedman

  Blow, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Writing, Play, Done

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One cannot control the actions of others, but we are responsible for what we do. People say things such as, "I can't do this," "it is not really me," "this makes me uncomfortable," etc. People, simply put, opt out of playing the game or doing so in a way that will make them successful. So get over yourself, and do what you need to do - and what, by the way, others around you are doing, to become more powerful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Powerful, Games, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Apples, Valleys

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Issues, Doubt

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Names, Acquisition, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Thinking, Track

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Animal, Track, Records

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of nature, we will need to appeal to something like natural kinds. This is, to be sure, a metaphysical commitment, but it is a metaphysical commitment that is implicit in science, as I see it.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Commitment, Law, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

  Eckhart Tolle

  Bored, Stressed, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  Harold Ramis

  Heart, Comedy, Imagine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

  Donald Faison

  Team, Trying, Intention

  Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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• They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Ambition, Technology

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• At Travelers, we were much more opportunistic. It was very successful, but it wasn't an integrated financial services company. We had a property casualty company, a life company, a brokerage company. We were a financial conglomerate. It wasn't a unified, coordinated strategy of any sort. When it merged with Citi, that became a big issue; Citi, at that time, wasn't yet a fully integrated, coordinated company.

  Jamie Dimon

  Issues, Financial, Strategy

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I want you to say to me right from the start, "We are here to serve customers. We're not here for me to make a lot of money. We're not here to bet on interest rates or credit spreads. We are here to serve our customers really well over a long period of time, and that's how you build a successful business." And so I want to see that, too, you know?

  Jamie Dimon

  Long, Credit, Want

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

  Noel Fielding

  Dying, Possibility, Ifs

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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