Richard Petty Quotes
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.
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I'd be a whale shark. I'd like to be the biggest. The winner. Size is always important.
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Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
