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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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
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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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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
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I also have an amazing codesigner and an amazing partnership with New York & Co. The exciting part of growing together and having this kind of long-term relationship is that they can anticipate where I'm going with something. So our relationship is very defined, it's a true partnership so I'm not doing it all by myself.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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It wasn't really a big deal. I thought it was hilarious.
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When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.
