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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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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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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You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
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In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
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There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
