Made It Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, Growth, Tools

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Agency, Two

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• Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

  Chris Hardwick

  Color, Years, Different

  Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. August 8, 2013.

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• The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Internet, Propaganda, Made

  "Why Tyrants Like Twitter" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

  John Fante

  Made, Not Interested, One Thing

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• I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

  Charles Dickens

  Yards, Links, Libertarian

  1843 A Christmas Carol, stave 1.

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• As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Exercise, Hands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

  Daniel Quinn

  Destiny, Men, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Doors, Trying

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

  Derrick Jensen

  Sleep, Gun, People

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