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I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

Bernie Ecclestone

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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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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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