Lee Iacocca Quotes
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I know all the critics.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
