Lee Iacocca Quotes
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?
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That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
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I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.
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Academic success depends on research and publications.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
