Felix Baumgartner Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
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There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
