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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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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.
