Mario Andretti Quotes
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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White America is in the minority.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.
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It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
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Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
