Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.
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If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
