Mario Andretti Quotes
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.
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After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
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It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That's Wonder Woman to me.
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
