Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.
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It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
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Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
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We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
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He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
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Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.
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Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
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MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
