Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.
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If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
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The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
