Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda (Nik Wallenda) Quotes
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
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The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
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Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.
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Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
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My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
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Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.
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As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
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I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
