Emerson Fittipaldi Quotes
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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No one person is an island.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.
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I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
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I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.
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When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.
