Lee Iacocca Quotes

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca

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GoodManBetterLongNewOld

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Anita Baker

LifePeopleMeSmallMy LifeWhy

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Steven Pinker

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I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.

Josh Lawson

TimeLongLong TimeBeenFanShows

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

Jason Silva

HappyAmazingThingsWellCurator

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Pierce Brosnan

EgoYouLoseWayUpOwn

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Peter Weir

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There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Sharon Horgan

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Drumming is my middle name.

Ringo Starr

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Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.

Nina Garcia

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Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

Mother Angelica

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