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 great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
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I have no privacy anymore.
