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 love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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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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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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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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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
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'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
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The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
