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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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
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People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.
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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.
