Edward Whitacre, Jr. Quotes
I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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The business has changed greatly since my day.
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There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
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When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
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I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.
