Lee Iacocca Quotes
They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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The devil made me do it.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it's like, 'Oh, wait, I'm here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.'
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
