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Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Women
  • Nothing
  • Vote

• I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

  

  Larry King
  • Thinking
  • Poor
  • Fortunate

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • You
  • Easy

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Better

• I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Never
  • Enough

• I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Job
  • Parents

• I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Parliament
  • Reminded

• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Art
  • Change
  • Grief

• I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

  

  Walt Whitman

• Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.

  

  Kay Cannon

• Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Determination

• When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Family

• When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Good
  • Family
  • Crazy

• Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Important
  • Family
  • Mom

• Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

  

  Eric Thomas
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