Lee Iacocca Quotes

Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them.

Lee Iacocca

• Spokesman
• Jason
• Nissan

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• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Like
  • Animals
  • Pet

• Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Way
  • You
  • King

• Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Great
  • American
  • Accountability

• I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Long
  • Game

• The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

  

  Brett Davern

• Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

  

  Chen Long

• I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

  

  Jennifer Ellison

• In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Political
  • Black
  • Education

• State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

  

  David E. Sanger

• I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Work
  • Important

• It's all about training smart.

  

  Tyson Gay
  • Training
  • Smart

• I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!

  

  Christopher McCandless
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • God
  • Believe

• Only the elites despise earning money.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Money

• I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Money
  • Decision
  • Halloween

• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Spoilt

• What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Materials

• The three auto companies in the United States, they're all scrambling to come up with a plan, some way to reinvent themselves. Well this week Ford did its part. Ford unveiled a new hybrid, the Ford Fusion, which will get almost 40 miles to the gallon. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and when asked how much it would cost, a spokesman for Ford said, '$25 billion.' They just want that money; they don't care. That's without mud flaps.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Money
  • Amazing

• When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • People
  • Interested
  • Younger

• Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Spokesman
  • Jason
  • Nissan