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 believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
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You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.
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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
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I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.
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He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
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I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
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There's always some room for improvisation.
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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.
