Philippe Petit Quotes
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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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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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.
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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
