Philippe Petit Quotes
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
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I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
