Harry Houdini Quotes
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
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I don't email.
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As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
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I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'
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I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
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The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
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Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.
