Made It Quotes - Page 4

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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Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

George Galloway

Order, President, Als

"Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.

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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

William Glasser

Teacher, Intellectual, Friendly

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To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Martha Graham

Beautiful, Dance, Men

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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

Sammy Hagar

Way, Different, Would Be

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America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

Mohsin Hamid

America, World, Arms

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I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

Joanne Harris

Thinking, Long, Mentor

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My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

Mitch Hedberg

Funny, Humor, Doe

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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein

Travel, Space, Far Away

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Audrey Hepburn

Stars, Law, Careers

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

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I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

Francois Hollande

Thinking, Discipline, Growth

"French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Buddy Holly

Music, Redneck, Made

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

Wish, Next, Anticipation

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.487

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I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Caroline Kennedy

Life, Mother, Courage

"Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service" by Larry Neumeister, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2008.

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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Jackie Kennedy

Men, Made, Harvard

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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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