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“I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.”

Mind Made Solutions Prototype

Author:James Dyson

“I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.”

Made Used Millions Rich Lucky Luck Yesterday Good Luck Bucks

Author:Conrad Black

“I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.”

Kind Made Six Motion Pictures Trademarks

Author:Dorothy Lamour

“I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.”

Made Speak Sports Intelligent Sat Minus Funniest Sports

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my mother's position if I could help it.”

Greek Mythology Goddesses Atalanta

Author:Jennifer Saint

Source: Atalanta

“I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)”

World Made Devil Chiefs Bargains

Author:Bob Dylan

“I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.”

Made Jobs Choices Decision Player Groups Team Bigger Harder Incredibles

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.”

Writing Kind Made Different Bigs Action Decision Proud Findings Conscious Passionate Different Kinds Action Movie Finding Myself

Author:Ric Roman Waugh

“I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it. And that’s not okay with me.”

Life Honesty Improvement Mistakes Mediocrity Living Life Bettering Life

Author:Dan Pearce

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.”

Made Bigs Mistake Sorry I Am Sorry Am Sorry Big Mistake

Author:William J. Clinton

“I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.”

Has Beens Made Bigs Past Mistake Cases Doubt No Doubt Testing Riders Offenders Big Mistake

Author:Patrik Sinkewitz

“I made a birdhouse,” he said confidently. “And I painted it to look like Hogwarts.”

Funny Hogwarts Small Circles Megan Duke Ninety Degrees Harry Potter Related

Author:Megan Duke

Source: Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.”

Trying Art Made Ideas Different Body Materials Wall Projects Insane Aspiration Cycles Egomaniacs Art Projects

Author:Robert Longo

“I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.”

People Thinking Made Real Enough Lines Common Mistake Company Boys Knowing Sea Rivers Starting Real Life Crossings Columbia Bolivia Faraway Places

Author:Mark Helprin

“I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.”

People Made Cutting Hair Gods Will Chinese Take Me Old People Braids

Author:Agnes Varda

“I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.”

People Writing Made Self Jobs Choices Wish Stuff Goal Careers Comedy Pieces Self Esteem Havens Paper Lows All Things Lists Esteem Low Self Esteem Stand Up Comedy Career Goals

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."”

Want Made Said Humor Funny Lines White Chocolate Cake They Said Chocolate Cake Potluck

Author:Steven Wright

“I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.”

Believe Made Hard Home Choices Boys Five Hard Work Raises Believe In Me

Author:Ann Romney

“I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.”

Years Kind Made Said Couple Standards Years Ago Western Albums Christmas Reviews Swings Site Flavor

Author:Suzy Bogguss

“I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.”

Made Guy Forget Rooms Saws Crazy Fingers Temples This Guy Circular Motion

Author:John Swartzwelder

Source: The Time Machine Did It

“I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.”

Made Mistake Classic Something Better

Author:Parker Stevenson

“I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.”

Made States Mother Justice Levels Promise Commitment Pursue Avenues Every Avenue

Author:William Lacy Clay, Jr.

“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.”

“I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. Whether it makes someone laugh, or it has a moral to the story - it doesn't have to be an ethical film, but it has to move people. If it doesn't excite me, it's not worth doing - it's better to work on myself and my own life and wait until another great thing comes along.”

People Film Moving Waiting Moral Laughing Commitment Great Things Making A Difference Ethical

Author:Laura Dern

“I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.”

People Made Wanted Film Moving Differences Commitment Actresses Making A Difference Firefighter

Author:Laura Dern

“I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.”

Made Running Party Commitment Canada Supporter Liberal Party

Author:Dalton McGuinty

“I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.”

Should Persons Made Literature Compact

Author:Charles Dickens

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me.”

Made Said Important Voice Effort Focus Love You Needed Singing Concerned Important Things Bells Things I Love

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.”

Made Shows Action Turns Choices Sides Conscious Direct

Author:Jason Momoa

“I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.”

Made Decision Conscious Actresses Being The Best Engagement Famous Actress

Author:Sally Kirkland

“I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.”

People Inspirational Persons Made Ideas Enough Moments Turns Courses Decision Conscious Negative Vulnerable Conception Comment Back When Negative Comments

Author:Sara Blakely

“I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.”

Way Want Children Made Decision Musician Conscious

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.”

Made Enough Able Decision Money Careers Husband Conscious My Husband

Author:Sarah Beeny

“I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.”

Way Littles Made Decision Conscious Best Way Living My Life

Author:Keira Knightley

“I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.”

Men Years Art Made Different Play Wanted Artist Decision Careers Conscious Focused Burning Attending Different Directions Burning Man

Author:Scott Cohen

“I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.”

Years Made Ideas Wanted Decision Conscious Importance Strive Mediocrity Abandoned Mediocre Grandeur

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought about it, and how I portrayed it to other people, because I wanted the story to be one of change from that to a more honest appraisal, a more accepting appraisal of myself and other people in that world.”

People World Writing Made Book Real Stories Wanted Decision Accepting Honest Conscious Treated Appraisal

Author:Melissa Febos

“I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.”

People Made Wanted Effort Directors Conscious Mediums

Author:Josh Duhamel

“I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.”

People Way Made Lasts Effort Records Conscious Affected Good Way

Author:Daniel Johns

“I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.”

Made Home Running Earth Mother Found Lost Born Birth Catholic Charity Miles Crash Landing Outlaw February Infamous Birth Mother

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“I made a creativity out of that messiness.”

Made Creativity Messiness

Author:Marc Almond

“I made a deal with God, He doesn't keep track of my mistakes, and I don't keep track of sufferings.”

God Pain Suffering Thought Dedication Spritual

Author:Vishesh Panthi

“I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.”

Writing Made Deals Cutting Smoke Productive Etc Weed Editing Smoke Weed I Smoke Weed

Author:Kevin Smith

“I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.”

Made Whole Deals Devil Lots Of Money Deals With The Devil

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.”

Fear Creativity Courage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.”

People Moving Decision Be Good Clutter

Author:Craig Finn

“I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.”

Made Order Names My Own Decision Trade Brands Titles Halloween Trade Offs

Author:John Carpenter

“I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there. Which I think is great progress. Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”

Happiness Acceptance

Author:Amy Poehler

Source: Yes Please

“I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.”

Feels Made My Own Decision Photography Connected Stomach Inner Life

Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.”

Made Said Kids Decision Cities Television Projects Agents California Mint Cornered Northern California

Author:Mare Winningham

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