Philippe Petit Quotes

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

Philippe Petit

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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.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• 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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• 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?'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • America
  • Running
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Body
  • Wise
  • Might

• The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.

  

  Corey Feldman

• Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • People
  • School

• Acting is a youthful profession.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Sick
  • Flying

• Preparation is everything.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Preparation

• Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Children
  • She

• The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

  

  Sheryl Crow

• I think writing gives me creative freedom.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.

  

  Earl Mac Rauch
  • Wife
  • Lie
  • Pictures

• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Anchor

• I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

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

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Anchor