Harry Houdini Quotes

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Harry Houdini

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• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

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• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  

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• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

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• Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

  

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• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

  

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• We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.

  

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• I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

  

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• It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

  

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• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  

  Axel Munthe
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• Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I separate the performer from the private citizen because it works for me. That gives the surprise element to my show. It doesn't change my playing. But if in a business suit they would think I was crazy. It's like putting Marlene Dietrich in a housedress.

  

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• There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

  

  Norm MacDonald
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• I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

  

  Nat Hentoff
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• When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

  

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• As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

  

  Ben Lee
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• I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said, "Yeah sure, I support this." What artist wouldn't support that? What's the big deal? But then people wrote to me, "Wow! You're on that list!" And I'm like, "Who isn't on that list?" That would be more shocking.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.

  

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• All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.

  

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• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Performer
  • Secrecy
  • Assistants