Philippe Petit Quotes

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

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It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.

Joe Bonamassa

MusicPeopleFreeYouMatterTake

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

John Henrik Clarke

FamilySonPeopleAmericanQuestions

When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.

Anand Mahindra

WorkYouNumbersRightHappenSet

If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

Steven Crowder

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I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.

Tommy Lee Jones

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You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Michio Kaku

ScienceYouCreateNewRealizeOld

In terms of my development as an artist, playing Professor Sprout wasn't all that important because she is well within my capabilities as an actress. But in terms of marketability, it made an enormous difference.

Miriam Margolyes

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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Jules Renard

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I think all priests should be married.

Denis Leary

ThinkMarriedI ThinkShouldPriests

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.

Colin Hanks

MusicInternetWalkingInteresting

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

Bruce Vilanch

PerformanceFatYouKnowSaidWhy

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Brian Reynolds Myers

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