Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'
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I'm more a competitive person.
