A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
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That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
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I don't do ski racing to be famous.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.
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I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
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I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.
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I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
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Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.
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Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.
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I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
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In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
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They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg printing press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.
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Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.
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The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
