Jacky Ickx Quotes
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
