Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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I regret all of my books.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
