Philippe Petit Quotes
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
Quotes to Explore
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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The Oculus Studio stuff is going to remain exclusive to the Oculus store and platform. That's not to say that you'll never be able to play it on other hardware, but it very much is exclusive to the Oculus platform.
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I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
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I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.
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Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
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I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
