"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them."

-- Nelson Piquet

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“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.”
“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”
“I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best”
“Iâ€™m beginning to know myself. I donâ€™t exist. Iâ€™m the space between what Iâ€™d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
“I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.”
“I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.”

Source : "Jennifer Lopez Talks Body Image And Finding Her Way In Hollywood". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.

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