Philippe Petit Quotes
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
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The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
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I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
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Preparation is everything.
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Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
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The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
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There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.
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Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
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The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
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Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
