Lee Iacocca Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
