Sterling Marlin (Sterling Burton Marlin) Quotes
It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.
