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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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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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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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
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To let it slip like that is disappointing.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
