"Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me."
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"Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do."
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"Follow your passion and you'll be successful."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television."
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"I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here."
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"Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken."
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"Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams."
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"Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential, it balances supply and demand, it's more consistent with higher levels of freedom. But the way we're pursuing it now, focuses on such short-term horizons, that a lot of businesses and investors are tempted to look at investments in terms of what's gonna happen in the next 90 days, what's gonna happen in one year. But the old phrase, "Good things take time," is true of successful businesses as well."
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"The successful painter is continually painting still life."
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"Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch."
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"I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record!"
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"The fact that you wish to become extremely successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such. Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is what do you need to become?"
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"Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century."
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"Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history."
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"Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history."
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"The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it."
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"When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves."
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"Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion."
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"With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing."
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"If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also."
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