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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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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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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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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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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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
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If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.
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He wants to enslave you. I shudder at the thought of being free.
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No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
