Charles Kettering Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
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Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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One fails forward toward success.
