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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
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• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
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  • I Can

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
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• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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  • Revolution

• 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.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • 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.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Choice

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• 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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Me
  • Effort
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• I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Hair
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  • Color

• It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Water
  • Worry
  • Silence

• I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

  

  Chili Davis
  • People
  • Kids
  • Player

• Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Real

• Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  

  Dorothea Brande
  • Mind

• 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'.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Star
  • Sister
  • June