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“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.”

Artist Successful Gains Envy Strain Rivals Bards

Author:Hesiod

“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.”

Men Causes Successful Wife Gains Versions Settling Faithful One Woman Settling Down Being Faithful

Author:Tony Gaskins

“A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.”

Knows War Found Nations Poor Successful Wise Victory Gains Preserves Ministers

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.”

Want Wells Littles States Kids Wanted Opportunity Stuff Bits Successful Too Much Little Bit Gains Felicity

Author:Keri Russell

“And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.”

Ifs Important Successful Reader Truth Is Benefits Gains Being Successful

Author:Isabel Allende

“Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.”

May Lying Successful Risk Willing Benefits Gains Encouragement Deception Occasional Concealment

Author:Michael Josephson

“The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.”

“The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.”

World Has Beens Real Facts Might Able Asks Issues Successful Doubt Position Gains Explanation No Doubt Relevant Accurate Predictions Equipment Cognitive Knowledge Of The World

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Too much of the income gains go to too few people, even though all of the stakeholders worked together to make their companies successful. By failing to put enough income into more hands, the GDP grows slower and consumers manage to meet their needs by incurring high levels of debt.”

People Needs Enough Hands Together Grows Levels Company Successful Too Much Failing Gains Debt Income Manage Consumers High Level Gdp Stakeholder Incurring

Author:Philip Kotler

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!”

Ifs Trying Mean Loses Deals Successful Gains Keep Trying Nothing To Lose

Author:W. Clement Stone