Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.Lafcadio Hearn
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
Tariq Ali -
If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
Verite -
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor -
Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
Laila Ali -
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
Larry Gagosian -
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone -
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Nate Mendel Foo Fighters -
The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
Adam Carolla -
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
Katha Pollitt -
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali -
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
Jacky Ickx -
We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
Edmond H. Fischer
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I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
Labrinth LSD -
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.
Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer -
In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.
Lafcadio Hearn