David Blaine Quotes
I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I started out doing musicals.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!
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Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
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If one awakens in men the idea of freedom then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves; if on the contrary, one only educates them, then they will at all times accommodate themselves to circumstance in the most highly educated and elegant manner and degenerate into subservient cringing souls.
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I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.
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I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.
