Quotes

People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

Security has come from being successful.

It's really bad to show kids the only way to be successful is to be famous, anyway.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.

Being clueless and out of touch is not a recipe for success at the midterm elections. But that only matters if you care about democracy.

Donald Trump harnessed the America First, Make America Great Again, populist, economic nationalist movement we now call Trumpism, but he did not invent it. He just was the only person resilient enough and impervious enough to elite opinion to force through its successful policies in the face of ferocious resistance.

When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.

I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.

I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.