Philippe Petit Quotes
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I do feel like 'The Dark Knight' is a great film, but that Batman in there? He's almost like Robocop to me. He's almost robotic looking; he's got this surgical approach to everything... He's almost not human. That's supposed to be his whole point: he's supposed to be the most human of superheroes.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
