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		I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Stanley
			
			
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		For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Richard Feynman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A successful coach is one who is still coaching.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Schwartzwalder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gwen Stefani
			
			
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		Gender equality is more successful than armed force.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Gilder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Lawrence
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Bowie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Friedman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sherman Alexie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scoot McNairy