Lee Iacocca Quotes
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I have a great office.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
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I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
