Evel Knievel Quotes

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie

• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Listening
  • Lion

• When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'

  

  Lily James
  • Promise

• The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Book
  • Nerd

• But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Experience
  • Journey
  • Sad

• It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Bad
  • Gossip

• I'm not ashamed to be gay.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Gay

• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • School
  • High

• I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • City
  • Door

• We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • People
  • Great
  • Song

• 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Kindness

• I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Work
  • Different
  • Guy

• When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Fun
  • Dad

• There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

  

  John Slattery
  • Men
  • Advice
  • Mad

• We want to generate jobs in the U.S.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg

• If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.

  

  Martin Campbell
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Green

• I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Superman
  • Nerve
  • Bulletproof