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.

David Blaine

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Courage

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• I try to do my best.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Best
  • Try

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• 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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Ways

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Things
  • Name
  • Straight

• 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.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Hell
  • Office
  • Box

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• 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.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Magic

• But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

  

  Billy West
  • Character
  • Remember

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • American
  • College
  • Military

• A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Family
  • Job
  • Dog

• I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

  

  David Blaine
  • Magic