Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.
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In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.
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If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.
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I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
