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Philippe Petit Quotes

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life People My Life Meet Never Met

I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

Think Boots Look Shoe Never Kitten

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Jennifer Granholm

Stand Up Stand You Sometimes Need

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

Luck Choice Acting Lucky Got Mix

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

Marriage Women History Voice Vote

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

City Stand You Place Know Sitting

Art is not meant to change the world.

Change Art Change The World World

I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''

Moment Men Silence You I Can Know

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Property Must Private Property Our

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

Christine Lahti

Life Winning Proud Smoking My Life

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

Busy Never Little Because Working

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Me Famous Know Why Way Never

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington

Process Slow Matter May Hypothesis

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