Famous Quotes: Success

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
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Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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