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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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
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I have no privacy anymore.
