Bobby Labonte Quotes
People have asked me, 'Hey, what do you think about driving the 43 car?' I say it's great, and it's going to be even better when we land in Victory Lane one day. That's when it's going to really mean something.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.
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Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
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Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.
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A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.
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I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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People have asked me, 'Hey, what do you think about driving the 43 car?' I say it's great, and it's going to be even better when we land in Victory Lane one day. That's when it's going to really mean something.
