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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• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Food

• Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!

  

  Brian Celio
  • Hate
  • Fool

• Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Space
  • Unknown

• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Real

• Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Idol' was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and get on top of. And I finally got that opportunity, and now it's more like, I just gotta show and prove myself to everybody that I'm not just the 'balladeer.'

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • Opportunity
  • Competition

• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  

  John Hanning Speke
  • Dark
  • Savage

• The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your - your president thinks.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Single

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

  

  Carl G. Fisher
  • America
  • Science
  • Materials