“My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.” KnowsStuffSuccessfulNeededDadUnionsMy DadGradesContractorEighth Grade Author:Mitch Pileggi
“I feel like karma is something that's real. I try and be the best possible person I can be, but not only that I try to help as many people as possible and influence others in a positive manner. And that's all stuff brought on by MMA because I want to be successful so want to be the best possible person.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingPersonsI CanRealHelpingStuffSuccessfulInfluenceKarmaBeing The BestBeing SuccessfulMma Author:Danny Castillo
“I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.” StoriesStuffSuccessfulCuttingConnectedBrutal Author:Judd Apatow
“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?” IfsLongArtStuffForgetCompanySuccessfulRecordsFourPaintingEqualLawyerForget ItGalleryRecord CompaniesPatronLeonardoPublicists Author:Debbie Harry
“I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like why aren't I happier? With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.” FeelsTryingLittlesCharacterBigsFilmStuffSuccessfulFiguresBig StuffApologising Author:Jason Reitman
“That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.” RunningStuffSuccessfulSpreadWho We AreParting Author:Matt Hasselbeck
“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStillsTodayFilmStuffReligiousDealsSuccessfulCommunicationThousandEternalDifficultyAspirationThemeMortalityRelevantExistentialThousand YearsRelevanceAntiquesPersonal RelationshipsTrendyBergmanLack Of Communication Author:Woody Allen
“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.” WantWellsLittlesStatesKidsWantedOpportunityStuffBitsSuccessfulToo MuchLittle BitGainsFelicity Author:Keri Russell
“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.” PeopleStuffSuccessfulStupidDumbDumb Stuff Author:Adam Carolla
“Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.” WayHumansStuffEconomySuccessfulHuman NatureFunctionCorruptionCharacteristicsFraudMinimumEmbezzlement Author:Alan Greenspan
“I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.” PeopleTryingPersonsRealEasyStuffSuccessfulSmartInspiredAlternativesBeing SuccessfulRoutesIconsEntiretySubculture Author:Lana Del Rey
“I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.” IfsKnowsWayRealBigsHappensStuffSoundSituationRolesAudienceSuccessfulCrazyKeysEarnestKeeping It Real Author:Jay Baruchel
“No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.” PeopleWorldWantStillsMatterStuffSuccessfulGrowingAmountInternetVicesBackgroundsFaithfulSupportiveVice VersaDemographics Author:Andy Samberg
“I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.” StuffEffortSuccessfulToo MuchNew YorkTypeInvolvedProjectsBuiltEastParksConservationEast Africa Author:Edward Norton
“You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.” NeedsStuffTeachSuccessfulEssentialsCoachesBoxingBeing SuccessfulMmaGymWrestlingKickboxingGood Coaches Author:Cain Velasquez
“If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.” IfsMatterEnoughStuffAttentionSuccessfulLuckyPay AttentionBeing SuccessfulStuff That Matters Author:David Macaulay
“When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.” KindDifferentSchoolGuyFunStuffSuccessfulSawsFansHigh SchoolFemaleDown AndHolesDirtyConcertsRockersSophomoreGrungeCourtney Author:Carrie Underwood
“The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'” IfsSocialStuffSuccessfulInformationMessagesMusic IsLegsIndispensableSlickSuave Author:Iggy Pop