Bob Lutz Quotes
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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One can transform a place by reading in it.
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We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.
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The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
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I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
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Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.
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My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it - I didn't decide to get into it. I was brought into it by my mom.
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All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.
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I'm tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone - I still feel conscious of that.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.
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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
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Right now, we're not where we ought to be on hybrids.
