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 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 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.
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One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
