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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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 don't believe in the afterlife.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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My family, we're all WASPs.
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I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
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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.
