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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I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'
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You can only understand the present age when it is past.
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'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
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We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice — everywhere open to the truth.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
