Charles Kettering Quotes
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Europe can be saved.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.
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I didn't know if it meant it was going to be a good day or a bad day.
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If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.
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You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
