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Philippe Petit Quotes

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: french
Birth: August 13, 1949

Topics

Learn You Rebel Rules Create Forget

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

Good Relationship Best Man Good Man

I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.

Only Who Sandy Adored

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

Daily Journey People Me Green Help

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

Matthew Desmond

Power Alone Right Up Her Just

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Death Treat Indifference Us Treats

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

Buildings Los Angeles Two Between

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

Music Too Much Rock Why More Reason

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Team Blind Reality You Complicated

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

Service Job Small Internet Summer

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

Christian More Movement Than Any

I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.

Learning Time Acting Go Know Want

Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

Good Alone Moving Game Long You

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