Bob Lutz Quotes
There's no Toyota of America engineering group, there's no Volkswagen or Audi that engineers unique cars for the United States. All we're doing is we're learning how to do what everybody else does.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
-
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
-
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
-
In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
-
I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
-
I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
-
Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
-
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
-
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
-
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
-
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
-
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
-
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
-
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
-
After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
-
It is possible for political forces to agree.
-
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
-
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
-
All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
-
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
-
There's no Toyota of America engineering group, there's no Volkswagen or Audi that engineers unique cars for the United States. All we're doing is we're learning how to do what everybody else does.
