I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
~By John Mica ~
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
~By Bette Davis ~
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~By Susie Bright ~
And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.
~By Howard Stern ~
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
~By Toi Derricotte ~
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
~By Florence Griffith Joyner ~
Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
~By Tiger Woods ~
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
~By Robert Stack ~
I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
~By Donna Shalala ~
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
~By Kevin Sorbo ~
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
~By Gary Kemp ~
Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.
~By James Roosevelt ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
~By Jermaine Dupri ~
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
~By Don Marquis ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
~By Mark Spitz ~
I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.
~By Vincent Frank ~
I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.
~By Frank Frazetta ~
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
~By Harold Wilson ~
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
~By Alex Haley ~
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
~By Pat Brown ~
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
~By George Harrison ~
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
~By Robert Half ~
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
~By Shawn Fanning ~
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
~By Carrot Top ~
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
~By Robert Mueller ~
I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.
~By Bobby Heenan ~
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
~By Eddie Murray ~
You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
~By Robert Wise ~
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
~By Martin Yan ~
Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
~By Kiana Tom ~
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.
~By Greg Evigan ~
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
~By Althea Gibson ~
But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
~By James MacArthur ~
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
~By Stephen King ~
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
~By Jessica Lange ~
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
~By Prince Charles ~
I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
~By Robin Day ~
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
~By Alexander Chase ~
We've been probably to some degree too successful.
~By Karl Rove ~
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
~By Dave Winfield ~
If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
~By Judy Holliday ~
I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?
~By Colin Greenwood ~
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
~By Lana Turner ~
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
~By Celine Dion ~
I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.
~By Julie Brown ~
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
~By Kate Millett ~
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.
~By James Iha ~
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
~By Ian Jackson ~
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
~By Pat Summerall ~
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
~By Danny Glover ~
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
~By Ville Valo ~
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
~By Boy George ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
~By Mark Sanford ~
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
~By Albert Bandura ~
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
~By Dick Wolf ~
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
~By Clive Anderson ~
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
~By Bob Cousy ~
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
~By Ted Rall ~
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