Michael Andretti Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.
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Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.
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A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on
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I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.
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Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.
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If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.
