David Blaine Quotes
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.
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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
