"We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing."
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"I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!"
"One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant."
"I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that."
"I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant."
"When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one."
"Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister."
"There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much."
"Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and all sorts of music if it's good but Indian music is just... an untouchable you can't say what it is, because it just is."
"The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women"
"Even brilliant scientists Google themselves."
"I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them."
"The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly."
"It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once."
"As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious."
"Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!"
"Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked."
"But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant."
"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture."
"I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor."