Connie Kalitta famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.
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I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."
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I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.
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New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.
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Many of our racetracks were built in the '60s - not much real estate for runoff.
-- Connie Kalitta
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.
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Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm
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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
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