Lee Iacocca Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Actors don't have real value.
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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.
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I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
