Philippe Falardeau quote: "I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film."

When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of document...
PHILIPPE FALARDEAU

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on...
PHILIPPE FALARDEAU

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.
PHILIPPE FALARDEAU

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.
PHILIPPE PERRIN

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the s...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
PHILIPPE SOLLERS

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
PHILIPPE QUINAULT

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturall...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wi...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggl...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The e...
PHILIPPE GRANDJEAN

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

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have th...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harb...
PHILIPPE PETIT

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first...
PHILIPPE PERRIN

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,...
PHILIPPE PETIT

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the stre...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Every time I do a project, I always look around and see if (there's) anybody else out there who's ex...
PHILIPPE STARCK

And you spend your evening in your color. The idea is to take things which open (your) mind, that sp...
PHILIPPE STARCK

(It's) sort of long corridor that you walk and suddenly you are green,
PHILIPPE STARCK

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a ...
PHILIPPE PERRIN

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of...
PHILIPPE PETIT

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says '...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Sera heureux celui ou celle pour qui tout est très important et, en même temps, sans aucune import...
PHILIPPE SOLLERS

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
PHILIPPE PETIT

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really lear...
PHILIPPE PETIT

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artisticall...
PHILIPPE PETIT

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or ...
PHILIPPE VAL

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

We are extremely pleased by these results. We believe that they are the first validation of the ther...
PHILIPPE ARCHINARD

Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)
PHILIPPE COLLAS

Our experience with previous bids has taught us a great deal about the needs and aspirations of the ...
PHILIPPE BAUDILLON

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
PHILIPPE PETIT

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four y...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
PHILIPPE PETIT

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
PHILIPPE PETIT

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the h...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
PHILIPPE PETIT

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a crimin...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
PHILIPPE PERRIN

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... (If) you are depres...
PHILIPPE STARCK

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary
PHILIPPE QUINAULT

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
PHILIPPE PETIT

Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist
PHILIPPE LEJEUNE

This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.
PHILIPPE VAL

Sen. Clinton is always honored when her hard work day in and day out for the people of New York is r...
PHILIPPE REINES

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something ...
PHILIPPE CLAUDEL

In fact, we know almost nothing about Joan of Arc. We don't even have a portrait of her. Even the ar...
PHILIPPE CHARLIER

This has been the great paradox--very successful European equity markets surrounded by a lukewarm ec...
PHILIPPE BRUGERE

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
PHILIPPE STARCK

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass an...
PHILIPPE PETIT

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simpl...
PHILIPPE PETIT

The two things she's been doing since she got to the Senate is work hard and work with Republicans. ...
PHILIPPE REINES

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
PHILIPPE PETIT

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

The strength in European earnings is the result of a tremendous rise in productivity. That explains ...
PHILIPPE BRUGERE

When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.
LOUISE PHILIPPE

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
PHILIPPE DJIAN

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate...
PHILIPPE PETIT

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a ver...
PHILIPPE PERRIN

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, ev...
PHILIPPE PETIT

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looke...
PHILIPPE HALSMAN

[Rebel leader Guy Philippe threatened late Wednesday to send his forces after Aristide, The Associat...
GUY PHILIPPE

We'll stay and sleep for one or two days, and after will decide. ... We'll keep on sending troops bu...
GUY PHILIPPE

If the U.S. asks us to stop the advance, we don't want to have any problem with the international co...
GUY PHILIPPE

I don't care what they said about me. I am running to serve my country, not the international commun...
GUY PHILIPPE

The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pag...
PHILIPPE GRIMBERT

All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we ...
PHILIPPE FOREST

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demon...
PHILIPPE LEJEUNE

We are looking for a big increase, like a doubling of our brand awareness. I think we'll see the des...
PHILIPPE DAVY

Higher energy prices and uncertainty about interest rates as economic growth continues are making it...
PHILIPPE GIJSELS

Higher interest rates are holding back the markets.
PHILIPPE GIJSELS

We'd like to say we're going to win races, but we have to be realistic. This is the highest level of...
PHILIPPE LOPEZ

We have done extremely well lately. The recent wave of interest in heritage brands among young fashi...
PHILIPPE LACOSTE

There were breakdowns, but everybody has a job to do. I didn't stop the puck and I'll take the blame...
PHILIPPE SAUVE

First Manning memo. From a legal perspective, one wants some hard evidence that something is there.
PHILIPPE SANDS

I'm fully satisfied with the work they've done. It was hard work, very hard work.
PHILIPPE WILLEKENS

Switching to MBE technology has been crucial to success.
PHILIPPE TRIBOLET

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba div...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genom...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Race differences show up early in life.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individu...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canad...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjec...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achie...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reprodu...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morpholo...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
PHILIPPE NERICAULT DESTOUCHES

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humanki...
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people w...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, she...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water th...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and bui...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.
LOUISE PHILIPPE DULAY

Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on t...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtu...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't r...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming &#...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to ex...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The quest...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the le...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caugh...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge as good as any other
PHILIPPE DE REMI

Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see peo...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

The goal of each EarthEcho Expedition is to inspire and empower youth around the world with the know...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocea...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. T...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.
LOUISE PHILIPPE DULAY

If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many chil...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Some parts of our oceans, like the rich and mysterious recesses of our Atlantic submarine canyons an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.

D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents ...
MARQUIS PHILIPPE EMANUEL DE COULANGES

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

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