David Blaine Quotes

When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.

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• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Need

• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Sometimes
  • Three
  • Cookie

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Political
  • Free

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • Brave
  • New York
  • Hip Hop

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

  

  Mark Salling

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • You

• It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.

  

  David Blaine
  • People
  • Together
  • Magic