Evel Knievel Quotes
You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.
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I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.
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There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
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You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.