Carroll Shelby (Carroll Hall Shelby) Quotes
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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I am an inventor of music.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.
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Depression is not interesting to watch.
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Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.
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A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.
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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
