Eddy Merckx Quotes
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.
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Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
