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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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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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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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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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'
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I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
