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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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• 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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• 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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• Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

  Scott Walker

  Chief Executives, Chiefs, Executives

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Differences, Essentials, Elements

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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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• I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Age, Fortunate

  "The Devil Wears Prada - Anne Hathaway interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• 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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• I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.

  Harrison Ford

  Opportunity, Attention, Mouths

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, Lucky, Enough

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• If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

  Alan Thicke

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.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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• Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Reading, Men

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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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• Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

  Jim Highsmith

  People, Answers, Projects

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• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, Giving Money, Needs

  "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

  Paul Singer

  Essence, Crafts, Entrepreneurial

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• It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

  Brooke Shields

  Might, Easy, Okay

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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