Lee Iacocca Quotes

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

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• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

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• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

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• I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

  

  Barbara Windsor
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• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
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• In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

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• Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

  

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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

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• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
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• I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

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• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

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• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

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• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

  

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• For me, it's about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That's what I am, and that's what I intend to do.

  

  Tyson Fury
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• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

  

  Robert Frost
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• A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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• They have taken decisions that were absolutely incompatible with the commitments that they have made with the international agency and also to us.

  

  Javier Solana
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  • Commitments
  • International Agency

• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man