Nelson Peltz Quotes
I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
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He started crying. Dante and his tears. Dante and his tears. You pushed me. You pushed me and you saved my life.
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I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
