Philippe Petit Quotes
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Justice is revenge.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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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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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security.
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Usually, what I do if I want to dress things up is I don't go for high heels, but I go for mid-heels instead.
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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
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Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.
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No one can guarantee success of a film.
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
