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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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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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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I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?
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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'.
