"If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life."
-Evel Knievel
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"You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.“
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"Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things."
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"I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world."
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"You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself."
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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."
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"I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth."
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