Lee Iacocca Quotes

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Brother
  • Baltimore
  • Mayor

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Man
  • Day
  • Challenge

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want

• There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • India
  • Coming

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Guilty

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Present

• A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Pain

• I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • World
  • Work