Lee Iacocca Quotes

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

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• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Show
  • Gig

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• Virtue is reason which has become energy.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Energy
  • Reason
  • Virtue

• I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Part

• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Jump

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • Beautiful

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • People

• Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Important
  • Children

• There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

  

  Jake Tapper

• There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Real
  • Joy
  • Sports

• There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

  

  Marshawn Lynch

• We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

  

  Bernie Worrell
  • Singing
  • Baby
  • Vocalist

• I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Important
  • House
  • Nice

• People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

  

  Crispin Glover
  • People
  • Up

• The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Political
  • Individual
  • Constitution

• Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

  

  Lee Iacocca