Philippe Petit Quotes

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

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• There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Up
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  • Kind

• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  

  Jack Canfield
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  • Success

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
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  • Girl

• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
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  • Time
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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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  • Want
  • Problems

• I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Home
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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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  • Food
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• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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  • Jesus
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• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

  

  Camilla Belle
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  • High School

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
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  • Success

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Catholic

• Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. (p. 245)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Technology

• No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Women
  • Children
  • Friends

• The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

  

  Bruce Henderson

• I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

  

  Philippe Petit
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