David Tepper Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.
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I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.
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Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.
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I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
