Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.
