"I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."
"Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success."
"Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God."
"We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful."
"I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time."
"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
"I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me."
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets."
"Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs."
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
"The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father."
"I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder."
"Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system."
"You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on."
"I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to."
"I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down."
"Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there."
"I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up."