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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Yourself, Important, Pretty

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

Success, Everything, Before

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

Stupidity, Knack

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
Steve Jobs

Why, Company, Results

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West

Women, Fire, Him

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack Obama

Morning, Car, Saturday

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Live, Long, Enough

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

Jealousy, Wife, May

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art, Motivation

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

True, May, Another

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington

Mind, Together, Made

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers

Conscience, Letting, Lawyers

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success, Happiness, Liking

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama

Best, Future, Done

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers

Nothing, America, Nation

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
Barack Obama

Health, True, Care

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma Bombeck

Book, Until, Says

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

Work, Start, Lose

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King

Someone, Human, Person

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale

Side, Liking, Merely

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Giving, Remember, Happiest

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack Obama

Keep, Kids, Off

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Money, Unfair

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Laugh, Feelings

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen

Morning, Big, Off

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music, Time, Live

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson

Time, Car, Everything

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Made, Themselves

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success, Times, Ten

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