Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.
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I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.
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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.
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Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
