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.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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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.
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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.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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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.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
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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.
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
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[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.
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Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
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Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
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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.
