Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda (Nik Wallenda) Quotes
I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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I don't like working in front of a camera.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.
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But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.
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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
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I could spend a whole day at a spa. I'd get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.
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I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
