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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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated with... I always wanted sponsors that felt good to be associated with me as well.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.
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Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
