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.

Philippe Petit

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In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

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Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

Matthew Stewart

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We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

John Updike

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We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Michael Leunig

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If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Juergen Teller

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You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.

Diego Costa

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The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.

Cliff Shaw

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I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Astro Teller

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David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Alice Walker

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Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

Prodigy

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