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.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.
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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.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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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.
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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
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I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.
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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.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
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I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it’s hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
