Harry Houdini Quotes
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.Harry Houdini
Quotes to Explore
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier -
It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
Samira Wiley -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
Hailey Bieber -
If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
Daniel Cormier -
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
Harold Feinstein
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
Carli Lloyd -
I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
Verite -
My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
Wadada Leo Smith -
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
Oliver Sacks -
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Jessica Savitch -
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
Jo Brand
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So now the devil's in my soul.
Christina Aguilera -
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bela Lugosi -
We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).
Gabe Newell -
Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime
Ian Brennan -
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
Mark Steyn -
Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
Shinzo Abe -
Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.
Harry Houdini