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?
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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.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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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.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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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.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.
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So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
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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.