Carl G. Fisher (Carl Graham Fisher) Quotes
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
