Harry Houdini Quotes

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Harry Houdini

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GoodTeethIronOffBiteSet

I grew up in a tiny town in Texas, so I understood the world of high school football.

Jesse Plemons

FootballSchoolWorldHigh SchoolUp

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

Andrew O'Hagan

FootballNightBedThreeUpGoing

I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

Andrew Forrest

GodI AmBelieveChurchChristian

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Robert Mugabe

MayNecessaryThanConstitutional

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

ChildrenMoneyMenEatingBecome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

St. Jerome

FriendshipTrue FriendshipTrueNever

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

Mike Birbiglia

LifeBestMeThoughtAdviceSomeone

I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on.

Jason Winston George

WorkBestPeopleHandsI CanWant

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Christina Aguilera

PeopleMeLaughWrongGoCry

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

Brian O'Driscoll

BeautyIdeasYouFindGoDifferent

I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Ato Essandoh

MusicListeningWorldBluesRockUp

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

Alistair Horne

HistoryAmericanTriumphMoreHim

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