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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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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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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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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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
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The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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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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A race isn't won until it's over.
