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Harry Houdini Quotes

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Harry Houdini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926

Topics

Life Business Men Professional Seem

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Anatoly Karpov

Champion Strong More Human Well

I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.

Matthew Pearl

Dog Alone Anxiety Separation Him He

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

Anna Lindh

Peace Political Important Structure

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Steven Millhauser

Daily Truth People Me Truth Is Way

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

Steven Tyler

Style Stylish Long Go Risk Mean

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

Simon Helberg

Business Up Little Saw Quite Around

The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy. If it's a comedy with Latinos in it, it's a Latino comedy. 'Normal' is white male, and I find that to be shocking and ridiculous.

Shonda Rhimes

Perspective Woman World Comedy You

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry Me Teachers Mentors Fountain

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

Javier Hernandez

You Sometimes Say Smell Inside Need

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

Joseph Kanon

Competition Better You Worst Vice

One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world can love you. But if you can get the majority on your side, you're really in business.

Don Rickles

Love Business Yourself Step World

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

Diego Costa

You Back Three Want Manager Top