Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
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I'm not a Republican.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.
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Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.
