Philippe Petit Quotes

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

Philippe Petit

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• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Corrupt

• I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Guns

• There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Night
  • Rest
  • Red

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Time
  • Genius
  • Right Time

• I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Singing
  • Find
  • Loved

• It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Bad
  • Today

• Beware:IgnoranceProtects itselfIgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• 6) Everybody talks first draft.

  

  Larry Niven

• If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Law
  • English

• Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Hope
  • Guy
  • Football

• A lot of what I write is very personal.

  

  Elif Batuman

• I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • People
  • Free
  • Amazing

• When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

  

  John Lurie
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Heart

• It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

  

  Philippe Petit