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• There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

  Helen Hayes

  Religious, Art, People

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• I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

  Scott Adams

  Bills, Computer, Gates

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• Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

  James Grant

  People, Investing, Agree

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• The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

  Herbert Simon

  Kind, Social, Rigor

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• A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

  Paul Goodman

  Community, Adequate, Revolution

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  Dan O'Brien

  Communication, Athlete, Trying

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• Successful people breed success.

  Phil Crosby

  People, Successful People

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• I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

  William Boyd

  Book, Novel, Print

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• There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

  Hudson Taylor

  Support, Majority, Minorities

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• I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

  Eli Roth

  Real, People, Magic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

  Matthew Lillard

  Training, Stage

  "EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Lillard Puts His Improv Chops on Display". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 6, 2009.

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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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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Effort, Balance, Energy

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

  John Linder

  Years, Iraq, Progress

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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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• The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

  Ibn Warraq

  Ideas, Slavery, West

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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