Mario Andretti Quotes

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

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• I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

  

  La India
  • Career
  • Change
  • Myself

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Yoga

• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Advocate

• People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• Retired life's good, man.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Man

• Democracy is like a totalitarian.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Like
  • Democracy

• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Country
  • History
  • Threats

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Wealth

• When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Good
  • God
  • History

• …a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Poetry

• Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Mistake

• Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• I've been traveling more and feel like I've figured out a comfortable way to do it. The biggest shift is that I spend my traveling time 'in the moment,' I don't over-schedule when I'm somewhere and instead focus on longer time with less people. I also give myself plenty of me time on the road.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Time
  • Focus

• But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Alone
  • Weak
  • Refuse

• I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that withstands the ravages? Everyone gets pulled down in life and has good moments. But it always interests me how people withstand things.

  

  Daphne Merkin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.

  

  Colum McCann
  • World
  • Death

• I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Inspiration
  • Classical
  • Lyrical

• Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

  

  Mario Andretti