Carroll Shelby (Carroll Hall Shelby) Quotes
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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Medication can help us live a happier life.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
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Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too late.
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The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.
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Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.
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I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
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Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
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The crest and crowning of all good,Life’s final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race. And till it come, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves.
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Yoga in America is a joke.
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I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad
