Philippe Petit Quotes
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
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On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
