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 did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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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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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything.
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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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If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.
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All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
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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.
