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Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Judge, Nothing

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

Success, Good, Person

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success, Death, Become

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
Bob Newhart

Fun, Long, Able

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury

Reason, Darling, Charisma

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Life, Positive, Before

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Ambition, Toward

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
Annie Lennox

Tell, Point, Whether

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
Casey Stengel

Hate, Made, Away

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
Condoleezza Rice

History, Political, Human

If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.
Lil Wayne

Hard, Everything, Tell

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Casey Stengel

Away, Walk, Weekends

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock

Picture, Villain

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Enough, Lucky

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

Business, Before, Matter

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Marco Rubio

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin-Ning Chu

Life, Dreams, Through

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell

Success, Men, End

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.
Glenn Beck

Life, Same, Said

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose

Secret, Writer, Number

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
Christina Aguilera

Great, Different, Energy

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Ben Stein

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods

Around, Off, Golf

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil Armstrong

Sad, Young, Motivation

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch

Talking, Known, Listening

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca

Good, Long, Old

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sydney Madwed

Success, Knowledge, Yourself

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
Conan O'Brien

Country, Inspired, Language

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler

Teacher, Longer, Bubble

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