Louis R. Chenevert Quotes

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Louis R. Chenevert

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Grace

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Success
  • Summer
  • Integrity

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Earth
  • Living
  • Face

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Job

• Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.

  

  Bonnie Somerville Band from TV
  • People
  • History

• This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Risk

• This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • History
  • Hurts
  • Troubles

• Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

  

  Louis R. Chenevert
  • History