"We got to keep on being a success."

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Irving Berlin

#Success Quotes

“Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press
“If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.”
“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
“You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.”
“Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.”

Source : "Q&A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton: 'You can’t get stuck in ruts or allow other people to stick you in ruts. You have t' keep challenging yourself'". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. April 19, 2011.
“I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.”
“All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.”
“Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.”

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