Harry Houdini Quotes
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
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America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
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I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!
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Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
