Lee Iacocca Quotes
In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.
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As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
