Bobby Labonte Quotes
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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CALLINGWind rocksthe porch chairsomebody home.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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During the Calciopoli scandal: 'A true gentleman never leaves his lady.'
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
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We ran a lap in practice that I screwed up on but will still ran a decent lap.
