Bill Ackman Quotes

I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Culture
  • Conservative

• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thought

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • Study
  • Blood

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Small
  • Camera
  • Small Things

• One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Work
  • History

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Mom

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

  

  John Muir
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Snow

• It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Words
  • Unique
  • Illusion

• People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.

  

  Jerry Zucker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Weird

• I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Earth