Lee Iacocca Quotes
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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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.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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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.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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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.
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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.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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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.
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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.
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There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
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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.
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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.
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People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
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For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'
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I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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Don’t just stand there; make something happen.
