Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Niki Lauda) Quotes
When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
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I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.
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Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.
