"I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things."

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Source : "Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.

Nik Wallenda

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“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”
“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.”
“The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.”

Source : Leopold Sedar Senghor (1965). “Prose and Poetry”
“Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.”
“Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love”
“You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory”
“If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.”

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