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Zebra
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Posted - 06/07/2009 :  20:52:42  Show Profile Send Zebra a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I don't follow celebrities or celebrity news, and this interview reminds me why. The celebrity says:


My next ambition is to teach myself to levitate.

So far I've only succeeded in my dreams. I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground. It hasn't happened yet. I'll manage it one day. In fact, I'm aiming beyond levitation. I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.


How much do you suppose her TM instructor charges her?



I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone* -Dick Cheney

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Agita
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USA
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  09:34:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Agita a Private Message  Reply with Quote
[i]Originally posted by Zebra

How much do you suppose her TM instructor charges her?



I don't know the amount, but he/she sure seems to have job security.
Edited by - Agita on 06/08/2009 09:34:49
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  12:18:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
She had to be joking, right? The whole "fly like a superhero" makes it sound like she was purposefully being... for lack of a better word... stupid.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  15:52:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I think the young lady's putting us on, for the sake of a (usefully) memorable interview. Three paragraphs after expressing her levitation/flying ambitions, she belatedly warns, "Outside of acting I'm useless at pretty much everything." Then she corrects this by saying she's a good gardener. I'd add that she also knows how to play the press.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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