Richard Petty Quotes
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?
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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.
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There will always be apologists for the powerful and politically connected who commit crimes.
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I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.
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I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
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Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
