Philippe Petit Quotes
Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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In my mind, I don't really see myself as being famous. I just think my work is being exposed to a bigger audience.
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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.
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Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
