Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Talent is very hot.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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History is not hatred.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
