Richard Petty Quotes

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Equal

• My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Song
  • Write

• I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Nice

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Feeling

• Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wolf

• There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Job

• Basically, I'm one of the greatest producers ever. And I'm also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I'm also one of the best executives ever.

  

  DJ Khaled

• Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

  

  Dagur Kari
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Serious

• It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Pride

• If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

  

  Richard Petty
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