Mario Andretti Quotes
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
