My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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JAMES HOGG This was another superb victory for Mitsubishi and a great team effort on a very hard and long rally... DOMINIQUE SERIEYS I wanted to stay. I'm not very happy to be here. Those people just lost everything. EMILY WOOD [Peckinpah said that what the two men had in common, and not just because it was the end of a long h... SAM PECKINPAH When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ... JEFFREY SKOLL I originally had everybody running only two events each. But with college testing, some injuries tha... DAN ROHRS My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle ... MARIAH FREDERICKS And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, unti... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa... JUSTIN ROSENBOHM I had some pressure [on that play]. 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GOSSIP Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 You and I drift on through the years du... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer ... A. J. GOSSIP God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 You, too, are called to be an open letter,... A. J. GOSSIP He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa... A. J. PIERZYNSKI The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th... A. J. PIERZYNSKI It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself. A. J. KITT Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it A. J. MUSTE The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he fi... A. J. LIEBLING It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the o... A. J. LIEBLING The way to write is well, and how is your own business. A. J. LIEBLING I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. A. J. LIEBLING Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol... A. J. LIEBLING An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. LIEBLING I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever. A. J. PIERZYNSKI Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. LIEBLING The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible... A. J. LIEBLING Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred... A. J. LIEBLING I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I... A. J. MCLEAN If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i... J. A. KONRATH Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t... A. J. P. TAYLOR Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to... A. J. P. TAYLOR A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. A. J. P. TAYLOR Nothing is inevitable until it happens. A. J. P. TAYLOR Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t... A. J. P. TAYLOR He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik... A. J. P. TAYLOR Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. TAYLOR In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige... A. J. P. TAYLOR