"I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life."

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Alain Robert

#Giving Up Quotes #Healing Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.”
“If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?”
“I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.”

Source : "What The (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide To The Great American Comeback". Interview with Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. June 20, 2012.
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”
“If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy.”
“For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.”

Source : Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.”

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