"There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are."

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Nik Wallenda

#Bars Quotes #Weight Quotes #Legacy Quotes

“I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.”
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.”
“Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds”
“I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabricate worlds; I pay attention to the things that already surround us.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.”
“The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.”

Source : "Another interview with a funny guy called ‘Graham’". Interview with Demetrius Romeo, standanddeliver.blogs.com. April 06, 2005.

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