Philippe Petit Quotes
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
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I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.
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What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
