Helio Castroneves (Hélio Castro-Neves) Quotes
I was trying to go as fast as I could. I didn't know I was in the lead. I was this close to the wall.
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I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.
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I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.
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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
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I can cook anything.
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Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
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I was trying to go as fast as I could. I didn't know I was in the lead. I was this close to the wall.
