Philippe Petit Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.
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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
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In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
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Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
