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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In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
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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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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.
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Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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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.