David Blaine Quotes
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I try to do my best.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.
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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
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Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.
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Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.
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I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
