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• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  Mike Tyson

  Blessed, Thinking, Target

  Inerview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.

  Jose Arguelles

  Order, Civilization, Growth

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• Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Illumination, Tv News, Perfect

  Veja magazine interview (Brazil), 1993.

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• The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Principles, Buying

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• It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.

  Chester Bennington

  Real, Giving, Ego

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• Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

  Max Anders

  Faces, Forget, Faithfulness

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• I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

  Fede Alvarez

  Trying, Cameras, Witness

  Source: collider.com

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• Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Information Processing, Ayahuasca

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• When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reality, Tree, Growth

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• I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspiration, Envy, Wish

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• Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.

  Vannevar Bush

  Moon, Men, Skills

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• The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

  Cathleen Schine

  Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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• The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Views, Shadow

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth of it. I am really not that brave, I am not really that strong, and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am just doing what God called me to do as a follower of Him. Feed His sheep, do unto the least of His people.

  Katie Davis

  Strong, Jobs, Sheep

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• There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

  Steve McQueen

  Ideas, Cameras, Ugly

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Art, Feelings

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Paradise

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Opportunity, Discovery, Profound

  "Future of the field calls for charisma and courage" by Kurt Riesselmann, www.fnal.gov. June 28, 2002.

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• I like "Training Day" very much. Denzel Washington's performance was spectacular. I also like "The Godfather"and "Kill Bill." I love Tarantino's mind and I believe that "Kill Bill" describes very well his mind and thoughts.

  Alfonso Herrera

  Believe, Training, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.

  Abbey Curran

  Thinking, Feel Good, World

  "Miss You Can Do It Premieres Tonight on HBO". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, June 24, 2013.

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• Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, Planets, Creatures

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• I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Would Be, Enthusiasm, Moments

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Erotic, Mind

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