Felix Baumgartner Quotes
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I would love to be a role model.
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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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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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I guess music is very global.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
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If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
