Mario Andretti Quotes
There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
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I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.
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I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
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There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
