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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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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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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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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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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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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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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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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California, here I come, right back where I started from.
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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.
