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Bernie Ecclestone

I think we don’t need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food. There’s a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.
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Country Distance Running
You’re born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
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Aptitude Skills Use
I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
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Daughter Opposite Time
You can’t make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it’s quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.
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Decision Issues Waiting
Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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Country Race Two
I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.
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Jobs Race Team
It’s the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
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Football Sports Writing
Each new deal is another opportunity.
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Another Opportunity Deals Each New
I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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Daughter Girl Son
[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.
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Good Right World
Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.
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Decisions Important Views
My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.
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Children Dad Forward Looking
A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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Ferrari Men Wise
You can’t compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I’m not really nostalgic about the past.
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Bad Climate Era Past Point Sports
I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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Journalist Kind Remember
I suppose it’s knowing when you’ve come up with an idea that works, when you’ve got it right, whatever it is.
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Come Ideas Knowing Up
People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: ‘We’ll come to Silverstone and have a look how it’s done’, and I tell them to stay away.
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Done Looks People
Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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English Speak
I think in the end officials in each country’s judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it’s on their conscience for the rest of their lives.
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Believe Country Thinking
You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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Management Moving Needs
I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
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Easier Hamilton Thinking
When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don’t want it built like that. It’s quite embarrassing.
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Looks People Track
[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he’d made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn’t want to say, “Well, that’s what I’ve done and I’m sticking to it, and I don’t give a damn.” Which is what the other people in America would be like.
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America Mistake Thinking
You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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Artist Musician Skills
Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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Shirts Street Vettel
If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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America Morning Past
I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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Changed Money Nappies

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