Mario Andretti Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.
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I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.
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One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
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At Andretti Winery, I'm not the winemaker.
