Helio Castroneves (Hélio Castro-Neves) Quotes
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism.
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We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.
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A lot of people don't believe in the Valley. It's up to us to prove them wrong and keep winning.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I would absolutely love to do a revival of 'Bury the Dead' by Irwin Shaw on Broadway, but it would have to be Joe Calarco's version that we did Off-Broadway at The Transport Group in 2008. It was just one of those amazing shows that didn't run long enough and not nearly enough people got a chance to see.
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I really didn't know I was winning until I was behind the pace car.
