Carroll Shelby (Carroll Hall Shelby) Quotes
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.
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It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
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I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
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My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
