Mario Andretti Quotes
The visas came through in 1955, when I was 15. That June, we sailed for New York aboard the Conte Biancamano. When we passed the Statue of Liberty, Anna Maria my sister tried to sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action - most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
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The visas came through in 1955, when I was 15. That June, we sailed for New York aboard the Conte Biancamano. When we passed the Statue of Liberty, Anna Maria my sister tried to sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
