Charles Kettering Quotes
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
