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"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."

"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."

"I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down."

"The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent."

"The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again."

"We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it."

"We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast."

"I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80."
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