Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
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I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.
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Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
