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 think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
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Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
