Charles Kettering Quotes
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
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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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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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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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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?
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I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
