If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of... -Philippe Petit

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

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Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers....

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's h...

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you nee...

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtuall...

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more in...

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

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me....

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When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something...

I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and ha...

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse....

Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father...

I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an extent, I had been ma...

Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I wi...

Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled....

Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their...

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious....

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year....