Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
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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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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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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 a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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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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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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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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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
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The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
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Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
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I wrote Collateral Beauty on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.
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A race isn't won until it's over.
