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.

Carl G. Fisher

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• Science
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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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• I would like to be a polyglot.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Like
  • Would

• 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.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Man
  • Tyrant

• Musical theatre is my first love.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • First

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hand

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Small
  • Moment
  • Circle

• 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.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Culture
  • Coffee

• Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Positive

• The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.

  

  Bernice King
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

  

  Joe Biden
  • America
  • Friend
  • Partner

• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • America

• In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • Work
  • America

• America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Should
  • Citizens

• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  

  Carl G. Fisher
  • America
  • Science
  • Materials