Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus) Quotes

If you don't accept me at my David Blaine, you don't deserve me at my Criss Angel.

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• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Jump
  • Surf

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
  • Broken
  • Presidential

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Job
  • Theatre

• I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • World
  • Air

• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Man
  • Democracy
  • saw

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Cautious

• We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Statesmen remember things selectively.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  

  Al Franken
  • Money

• How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • American
  • Today

• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

  

  Andres Segovia
  • Writing

• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Job
  • Unique

• We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Question

• People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Change
  • Habitual Vocabulary

• There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Peace
  • Jesus

• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  

  Karen Walton
  • Writing
  • Hours
  • Surprise

• If you don't accept me at my David Blaine, you don't deserve me at my Criss Angel.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • David Blaine
  • Criss Angel