Lee Iacocca Quotes

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

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• I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Different
  • Live
  • Children

• Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Me
  • Like
  • Adult

• As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Kids
  • Bridge
  • Transition

• I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Family
  • Home

• I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

  

  Gallagher
  • Want
  • Government
  • Fire

• I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • World
  • Remember
  • Fun

• I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Family
  • Stop
  • Thuggin

• The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Space
  • Friend

• I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Ignore
  • Abuse

• I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Real

• You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Work
  • May

• People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

  

  Alain Prost
  • People
  • Car

• I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

  

  Anne Perry

• I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Universe

• I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People

• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life

• For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Understanding

• You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

  

  Beth Comstock
  • Tell
  • Sell

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sex
  • Taught
  • Subjects

• I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Sell
  • Chrysler
  • Warranties