Philippe Petit Quotes

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

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• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Voice
  • Own

• Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Most
  • Global Warming
  • Global

• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Equal
  • Only
  • Washington

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Confusion

• As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Driving
  • Common
  • Questions

• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Like
  • Check

• I do go to the gym five days a week.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Go

• Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Inspiration
  • Offers

• His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Wife

• I felt all kinds of pressure on myself...I didn't want to disappoint anybody. But that is nothing that compares to someone dealing with a health issue, so my shit is no big deal.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Health

• Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• To make myself visible as I am now, when I sense that the cadaver that I occupy is almost worn out or that the organs are no longer working very well, I breathe myself into a young body that has just died.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Breathe

• The Internet changes the structure of society all the time-this massiveness made of individuals.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Time
  • Society

• For years, I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the 'SAO' franchise. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutting-edge yet timeless story to a new format at Skydance.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Inspired

• I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Song
  • Fighting
  • Independent

• Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto-not just as regards students but also professors.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Black
  • Color

• I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."

  

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Divorce

• Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Power

• If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

  

  Philippe Petit