David Blaine Quotes

If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Remember
  • Learning

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Director

• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Happy
  • High
  • City

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Efficient
  • Perfectly
  • Runner

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Thing
  • Eating

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Courage

• If Michael Flynn lost his job because of a gradual erosion of trust, shouldn't the easy and frequent production of official statements that are so many connecting flights from the truth also be concerning?

  

  John Dickerson
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Lost

• A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Style
  • Powerful
  • Hurt

• If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Time

• I think what's universal is the idea of auditioning. It's something that you do in every kind of job market. You audition every time you go on a date, you audition at a job interview, and it's always about trying to put the best version of yourself forward and seeing what sticks and what doesn't.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Job

• One of the most marked features about the law of mind is that it makes time to have a definite direction of flow from past to future. ...This makes one of the great contrasts between the law of mind and the law of physical force, where there is no more distinction between the two opposite directions in time than between moving northward and moving southward.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mind

• If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.

  

  David Blaine
  • Time