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"It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success."

Alanis Morissette on Success

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  • "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

    Bill Cosby on Success

  • "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

    Swami Vivekananda on Success

  • "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

    Bruce Lee on Success

  • "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

    David Brinkley on Success

  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

    Winston Churchill on Success

More quotes by Alanis Morissette

  • "Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet."

  • "I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet."

  • "When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

  • "I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched."

  • "We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

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