Lee Iacocca Quotes
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.
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Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.
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I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
