Philippe Petit Quotes
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I love to write.
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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 remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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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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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.
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We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
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The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
