Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
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I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.
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I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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Whenever I see something that challenges me, I take it on.
