Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'
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I love a good party.
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Being a good comedian is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
