A. J. Foyt Quotes
I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
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I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
