Richard Petty Quotes
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
