Pete du Pont Quotes
That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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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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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I am happy being what I am.
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Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.
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All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
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I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.
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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
