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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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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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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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I call my music the healing music… It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.
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Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.
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I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.
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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.
