Felix Baumgartner Quotes
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.
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In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
