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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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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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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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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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.
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I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.
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I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Oh dear. I so mistrust it when "impossible" is one's initial reaction to an idea.
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What this also suggests, intriguingly, is that the task of translating or writing literary novels cannot be broken into parts and done by a succession of different humans either—not by wikis, nor crowdsourcing, nor ghostwriters. Stability of point of view and consistency of style are too important. What’s truly strange, then, is the fact that we do seem to make a lot of art this way
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Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.
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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.
