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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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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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I never consciously choose what I'm going to work on next; I don't have an agenda beyond that attraction. Fortunately, my wonderful agent, Christopher Schelling, knows how I think and points me toward things I might like, which is how I started writing Y.A.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
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Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
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Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
