Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
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The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.
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You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
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I have no privacy anymore.
