And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn’t buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. – John Perkins
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. – Judd Gregg
If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn’t think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was. – John Hickenlooper
I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy. – Jim Ratcliffe
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain. – Mike Pence
There are instances where you’re in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don’t necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you’re just another element in the scene. – Mahershala Ali
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. – Keith Henson
There’s that saying: ‘God gave you talent, and if you don’t use it He’ll take it away from you.’ And I always said, ‘I don’t want God to come down and take my talents away.’ So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I’ve always got something to fall back on. – Missy Elliott
Trump might become deeply unpopular in the way that I, with some people, am deeply unpopular, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t get things done. You can be unpopular and successful. – Milo Yiannopoulos
Those projects most successful on Kickstarter – those that receive funding completely and quickly – do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged. – Lisa Gansky
When you’re younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible. – Kathy Baker
There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. – Kerry Bishe
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. – Letitia Baldrige
The parts I’ve been most successful in are the ones I’ve desperately, desperately wanted. – Kristin Scott Thomas
I’m not very good at sticking at things if I can’t be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago. – Laura Wade
If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year. – Kallam Anji Reddy
I think ‘The Lost World’ could’ve been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics. – John Rhys-Davies
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. – Marc Andreessen
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I’d have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven’t even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. – John Dos Passos
Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful. – Jayne Ann Krentz
If you’re in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I’m not remotely laddish. I’m a grown-up. I’m vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume. – Johnny Marr
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. – Kevin Spacey
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn’t know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, ‘I want to be an actor.’ That’s what I did. – Lupita Nyong’o
Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. – Jerry B. Jenkins
I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that. – Jimmy Nail
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, ‘Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.’ You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we’ve been and what little regard we have for the natural world. – Leonardo DiCaprio
