Michael Carbonaro Quotes
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.
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Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
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I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.
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But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.
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I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. What starts to happen is like exercise, the pain goes away. It starts to get easier and the weight starts to get lighter and people start to notice a difference in you and you start to notice a difference in yourself. You find your ability to make decisions is easier; you find you are inspired more often. You find your success increases. You find that your random moments when you're in the flow are no longer random and you can control them. Other people notice the difference.
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Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
