Mario Andretti Quotes

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • I Believe

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • You
  • March
  • Forward

• Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Positive
  • Yourself
  • Look

• 'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Together
  • Growing

• I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Heart
  • Forgiveness

• The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency - our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Trying
  • Home
  • War

• I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Strong

• My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Father
  • Hero

• I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

  

  Caroline Corr

• I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Lost

• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Ideas
  • Lied

• I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Energy
  • Perfectionist

• Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

  

  Mario Andretti