Fernando Alonso Quotes
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
