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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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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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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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.
