Bob Lutz Quotes
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy is like... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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My work is not directly about the social or political.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
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I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
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Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
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Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy is like... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.
