"And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars."

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Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

David Maraniss

#Cocky Quotes #Japan Quotes #Car Quotes

“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
“I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.”
“Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.”
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
“All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.”
“Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.”
“I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.”
“I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.”

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